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Indigenous peoples of Arizona

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Indigenous peoples of Arizona

Native Americans have inhabited what is now Arizona for thousands of years. It remains a state with one of the largest percentages of Native Americans in the United States of America, and has the second largest total Native American population of any state. In addition, the majority of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the US, and the entire Tohono O'odham Nation, the second largest, are located in Arizona. Over a quarter of the area of the state is reservation land.

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Twenty tribes are members of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA).

Contemporary peoples native to Arizona

  • Chemehuevi
  • Chiricahua
  • Cocopa, or Xawitt Kwñchawaay
  • Dilzhe'e Apache
  • Havasupai, or Havasuw `Baaja
  • Hopi
  • Hualapai, or Hwal `Baaja
  • Maricopa, or Piipaash
  • Mohave, or Hamakhava (also spelled Mojave)
  • Navajo, or Diné
  • Southern Paiute
  • Akimel O'odham, formerly Pima
  • Quechan, or Yuma
  • San Carlos Apache, Nné - Coyotero or Western Apaches
  • Tewa
  • Tohono O'odham, formerly Papago
  • Southern Ute
  • White Mountain Apache, Ndé - Coyotero or Western Apaches
  • Xalychidom, or Halchidhoma
  • Yavapai, or Kwevkepaya, Wipukepa, Tolkepaya, and Yavepé (four separate groups)
  • Zuni, or A:shiwi

    • Prehistoric cultures in Arizona

  • Ancestral Pueblo, Four Corners area
  • Hohokam, or Ho:-ho:gam, as far north as the Valley of the Sun and as far south as Mexico.
  • Mogollon
  • Patayan, western region
  • Sinagua, area around present-day Flagstaff

    • Tribal entities in Arizona

    This is a list of all federally recognized tribes in Arizona currently registered with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Links go to the tribes' website or to the ITCA's page for that tribe.

  • Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation
  • Cocopah Tribe of Arizona
  • Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and California
  • Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
  • Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada
  • Gila River Indian Community
  • Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation
  • Hopi Tribe of Arizona
  • Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation
  • Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation
  • Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
  • Pascua Yaqui, Arizona, Mexico
  • Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California & Arizona
  • Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation
  • San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation
  • San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona
  • Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona
  • Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
  • White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation
  • Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation
  • Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation

    • References

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