Drive 75 minutes northeast of San Diego’s tony La Jolla neighbourhood, and beachy vistas transform into the verdant Palomar Mountain, where luxury gives way to reservation land — a different kind of richness.
There, on the La Jolla Indian Reservation, Jamie Okuma works alone in her home studio, hand-beading museum-quality pieces that can take months to complete. The Luiseño and Shoshone-Bannock designer became the first Native American inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of…

