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Despite strong community opposition, the Chumash Indian tribe built the 12-story Chumash Casino Resort hotel tower in Santa Ynez, California. (Valerie Richardson/The Washington Times)

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Travel Tunisia Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on The Washington Post as a political tool of Amazon.com owner Jeff Bezos by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this July 19, 2011, file photo, Confederate battle flags fly in Mountain Creek, Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Cultivating relationships: President Obama will make his final trip to the G-7 summit next week, including a visit to Vietnam, where the president hopes to foster a mutual relationship against Chinese expansion in the waters around the country. (Associated Press)

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The 130-acre Chumash reservation, which had no running water until the 1960s, is now home to some of the valley's wealthiest residents thanks to shares of casino revenue. About 250 tribal members and their children live on the reservation.

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Over objections from local residents, a 12-story hotel tower is being constructed at the Chumash Casino Resort in a rural valley where the tallest building is three stories. The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs agreed in 2014 to take the property into trust, meaning it is no longer subject to Santa Barbara County's zoning codes. (Valerie Richardson/The Washington Times)

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Black Angus cattle graze in California's Santa Ynez Valley, which has retained its agrarian character by design. The Chumash tribe, however, has other plans for 1,400 acres of property, including housing, a hotel and a winery. Longtime residents say such development would ruin the bucolic scenery, which includes a rare stand of blue oak trees. (Photographs by Valerie Richardson/The Washington Times)