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How one of America’s smallest Indian tribes bounced back from the brink of dying out

Amanda Vance, the 32-year-old tribal chair of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, on a recent weekday settled in for a long afternoon of meetings in the double-wide trailers that make up the tribe’s government buildings. Flanked by photos of her ancestors, including her late mother, Mary Ann Martin, Vance listened carefully to a presentation […]

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