Minority Rights and Native Americans

April 27-30, 2005, New Mexico
Contact: Washington Foreign Press Center Program Officer: Jennifer Archibeque
Telephone: 202-5046319, Email: jennifera@state.gov

Twenty-one radio and print journalists based in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington participated in a tour for domestic-based foreign correspondents to New Mexico.  The journalists were from Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, South Africa, China, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Serbia, and Poland.  Reporters traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico and surrounding pueblos, where they focused on minority rights, tribal sovereignty and the economic, social, and political realities of Pueblo and Navajo tribes today.  The journalists interviewed academics, reporters and tribal and state officials.  They also interviewed people from some of the
state's 19 pueblos and from the Navajo nation.  The tour also included a day at the Gathering of Nations, which is advertised as the largest Pow Wow in North America.