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Zuni Pueblo Model Paves Way For Healthy Kids

“What are you doing this summer?”

If you asked the kids of the Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico today, many of them would tell you they are enrolled in summer camp through the Tribe and are having fun playing soccer or basketball or gardening.

This wasn’t the case four years ago, before a group of Zuni community members sat down and asked the same question. The answer then was that the kids were watching TV or playing video games—there were not a lot of opportunities for kids to live an active, healthy life.