The tiny tribe lived on a reservation of 740 acres in the San Bernardino hills, mostly in mud huts without electricity or running water. Up until the 1980s, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of Highland, Calif., were dirt poor, with a 75 percent unemployment rate. Joe Kalt (from left), co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, participates in a discussion with Anita Fineday, corporate counsel, Mille Lacs Corporate Commission Taylor Keen, vice president for economic development, Cherokee Nation Enterprises and Gregg Shutiva of Acoma Business Enterprises.
