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Show indigenous people, not the first or last, returning (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evita

'show' is the definition.
(musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

'indigenous people not the first or last returning' is the wordplay.
'indigenous people' becomes 'natives' (I've seen this before).
'not the first or last' means to look at the middle letters (the first and last letters are removed).
'returning' is a reversal indicator.
The middle of 'natives' is 'ative'.
'ative' back-to-front is 'EVITA'.

(Other definitions for evita that I've seen before include "Well-known musical" , "Juan Peron's wife" , "Show" , "Andrew Lloyd Webber musical set in Argentina" , "Peron musical" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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