ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the aforementioned questions in the context of the selected case-study cities of La Paz and Quito. It provides an account of the lived experience of urban indigeneity. The chapter suggests that indigenous residents in both cities share a common desire to move ahead economically. It examines a variety of articulations of indigeneity and associated interests, demands, and rights-based claims within the neighbourhoods of Chasquipampa and Ovejuyo in La Paz. The chapter also explores what indigeneity means to those people who self-identify as indigenous in the selected case-study sites in La Paz and Quito. In contrast to static understandings of indigeneity which associate indigenous peoples with rurality, tradition, and backwardness but not with modern cities, most indigenous residents in Chasquipampa and Ovejuyo aspire to combine a modern urban life with their traditions. Hence, indigeneity means different things to different residents and, likewise, there exist multiple and, at times, conflicting articulations of the indigenous right to the city.
