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28 Duros Camp
Amelia Gonzalez in the kitchen/family room of her trailer in Duros, a farm labor camp of trailers in the desert in Coachella Valley. Many of the camp's residents are indigenous Purepecha migrants from the Mexican state of Michoacan. Amelia is the daughter of Pedro Gonzales, a leader of the Purepecha community in the Coachella Valley.

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