Zuni Pueblo: Empowering Community-Led Tourism in New Mexico
Zuni, with 10,000 Indigenous residents, is the largest of New Mexico’s 19 pueblos, the state’s traditional Native American villages—and one of the most remote. The 1,300-year-old settlement in the Colorado Plateau, at the foot of the Dowa Yalanne mesa, is home to adobe houses, archaeological sites, and thousands of petroglyphs. Most of the area’s modern economy is based on traditional crafts: woven textiles, painted pottery, and inlaid mosaic jewelry.