{"product_id":"an-indian-among-los-indigenas-a-native-travel-memoir","title":"An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ursula Pike's memoir is unlike any other I've read, with her perceptive, always-seeking, and lovely narrative voice.\" --\u003cb\u003eSusan Straight\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMecca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is alive with a spirit that welcomed mine to meet it.\" --\u003cb\u003eElissa Washuta\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, 'knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help.' In the following two years, as a series of dramatic episodes brought that tension to boiling point, she began to ask: what does it mean to have experienced the effects of colonialism firsthand, and yet to risk becoming a colonizing force in turn?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Indian among los Ind?genas\u003c\/i\u003e, Pike's memoir of this experience, upends a canon of travel memoirs that has historically been dominated by white writers. It is a sharp, honest, and unnerving examination of the shadows that colonial history casts over even the most well-intentioned attempts at cross-cultural aid. It is also the debut of an exceptionally astute writer with a mastery of deadpan wit. It signals a shift in travel writing that is long overdue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePike, Ursula:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ursula Pike is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work won the 2019 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest in the memoir category, and her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eYellow Medicine Review, World Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLigeia Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She has an MA in economics, with a focus on community economic development, and was a Peace Corps fellow at Western Illinois University. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1994 to 1996. An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe, she was born in California and grew up in Daly City, California, and Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.","brand":"Heyday Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649376882962,"sku":"9781597145275","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57f2f2d0-b82c-46c5-b289-1241208c6f75.jpg?v=1733262321","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-indian-among-los-indigenas-a-native-travel-memoir","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}