Before the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council voted on a casino contract, a repatriation agreement, or a recovery program’s plea for survival, it heard a hundred years of Yoeme history told by a man who had a wake to get to. This piece follows one tribal council meeting from that opening story to its final agenda item — and finds, in the gap between them, everything worth knowing about who gets institutional muscle memory and who gets institutional whiplash.
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