Join Ursula Pike in conversation with Estelle Tarica about Pike’s travel memoir, chronicling her experience in Bolivia as a Native woman.

When 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 expected to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. After all, she was not just another privileged volunteer. She was “one of the good ones”—a fellow Native who wanted to help lift a community out of poverty through economic development.

Over the next two years, as a series of dramatic episodes brought Pike to question: What does it mean to have experienced the effects of colonialism firsthand, and yet to risk becoming a colonizing force in turn?

An Indian among los Indígenas, Pike’s memoir of this experience, upends a canon of travel memoirs that has historically been dominated by white writers.

Estelle Tarica, professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish at UC Berkeley, will engage Ursula Pike in a lively discussion about the many issues the book grapples with: colonialism, indigenous identity, global aid efforts, and so much more.