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The Invisible Indian Tribe

by | May 15, 2010 | True Westerners

Lee Ann Allen is helping a New Mexico tribe gain back its status.
Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a “recognized” American Indian tribe, an oversight the members have been struggling to correct with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for the last 40 years. In those four decades, they’ve filed mountains of


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