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The buses would stop at the mission school, where the children lined up while strangers from around the world filtered out and deposited shiny quarters in their hands. “Nowthat I think about it, it was just a happytime for me,” Gachupin says 40 yearslater. ‘I knew I was going to get a quarter and I could go and buy a soda and some chips or whatever.” The streets of Jemez Pueblo are still narrow and unpaved; adobe homes that have survived generations still surround the village square. Gachupin is now the pueblo’s lieutenant governor and tourists still flock in every year by the thousands. The difference is, quarters don’t go far anymore. Travel and tourism bring $3.3 billion annuallyto New Mexico and nearly $400 million in combined federal, state and local tax revenues. Tourism also + LINCOLN A Luxury Car Should Pueblos Get Few Tourism Dollars JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. — On summermornings, Lincoln Town Car... Affordable Luxury What Able Uribe/The Associated Press Tourists visit Taos Pueblo in New Mexico this month. About 350,000touristsvisit the 1,000year-old pueblo each year, often disrupting everydaylife for the 10 familiesstill living there. | Standard =I vndard standard $ 32 950 | TheSaltLakeTribune INTERMOUNTAINFriday,September 26,1997 creates an estimated 45,000 jobs a year. A 1994 Tourism Department survey foundvisitors list scenic beauty as the No. 1 reason for coming to Be NewMexico, with Indian culture second. Indian Market, Santa Fe’s single largest tourist attraction, generates an estimated $134 million in tourist expenditures, more than anentire season of The Santa Fe Opera. But many of the state's 22 Indian tribes and pueb- and increased traffic without resourcesto controlit — andthe take seems even smaller. “People stay and eat in Santa Fe or Albuquerque, then come to the pueblo and buy pieceof fry bread and think we're getting the benefits,” Jemez tribal administrator Roger Fragua says State and local governments, Indians believe, haven't been fair partners in helping tribes build services such as roads, water and sewer systems and tourist facilities to deal with visitors the governmentshelped attract by using Indians in promotions. In thepastthreelegislative sessions, bills to help tribes build tourist services failed. “We're basically the goose that laid the golden egg,” Fragua says. “But politically, the state has beentrying to kill the goose.” Mark Lujan, in chargeof orchestrating tourism at Taos Pueblo, said the famous pueblo gets from 300,000 to 350,000 tourists a year. The pueblo charges a $2 entrancefee, plus $5 to park within the wall and $5 to photographor sketch. Taos Pueblois one of a handfulofstate tribes to successfully retain tourist dollars, says Regis Pecos, director of the state Office of Indian Affairs That success makes tourism the pueblo's second- See NEXT PAGE FITNESS * New at Dillard's * Cushionedforefoot for aerobic and step activities * Lightweight “Elon” midsole with rubber island in high wear area * Cross between aerobics and WE GUARANTEE YOUR COMFORT!Purchase a pair of Easy Spirit fitness shoes between September 25 and October 2, 1997. Wear them for seven daysandif you are not satisfied with the comfort or thefit, you'll receive a full refund with a dated receipt. 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