“Section 14: The Untold Story, the newest exhibit at the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, explores the complicated history of a tract of land in the heart of downtown Palm Springs.
The square-mile location, and the people who have lived on Section 14, have been the subject of headlines since President Ulysses S. Grant signed the origin documents, making the land part of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in 1876.
In 1968, the Riverside Press-Enterprise won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the effects of the federal government’s guardianship of the tribe. A local group, Section 14 Survivors, made national news when it successfully sued the city of Palm Springs for reparations, due to the city’s part in forced evictions from the land in the 1950s and ‘60s…”
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