From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa. Today, a Native American reservation in Washington state, where Latinos and Latinas are the majority of the

population, and also the tensions that flare up because of that.

Welcome to Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa. In the late 1970s, Guadalupe Marquez was living in

Alco, Mexico. Her husband was gone most of the year in the United States doing farm work.

Wadalupe's husband would spend eight or nine months working hard to make a living to provide for his family across the border.

And like thousands of other labor immigrants before and after him, he would then take time to go back to Mexico and visit his family.

He'd stay for a month before leaving to the U.S. again. But nine months after

every visit, something big would happen. Wadalupe would end up giving birth to a new child.

And not once or three times did this happen. It happened 16 times. Yes, 16 times. That's why our families so big,

Guadalupe says. Of course, 16 kids. But finally, one day Wadalupe decided enough was enough.

She didn't want to keep raising her large family on her own. She wanted her husband to be a

permanent part of their life too, not just as a visitor. And so she convinced her husband to take

her with him to the United States for good. They ended up joining some relatives in Washington

State. They rented a house in a tiny town surrounded by fruit orchards.

Guadalupe's daughter Yaseña was five years old when they arrived.

Her most vivid memory of that first house was finding these tiny little clues.

And I remember in the closet of the house, there was beads, like Native American beads.

I just remember finding beads for as long as we lived in that house, there was always

beads in the closet.

It took Yusena years to realize what made this town, Wapato, different from the rest of the country.

It wasn't really evident to us that we lived on a reservation.

It wasn't something that we were conscious about.

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