Native American tribes of Arizona
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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. In fact, over 1/4 of the area of the state is reservation land.
Contemporary peoples native to Arizona are:
- Papago, or Tohono O'odham
- Pima, or Akimel O'odham
- Quechan, or Yuma
- Cocopa, or Xawitt Kunyavaei
- Mojave, or Hamakhava
- Maricopa, or Piipaash
- Xalychidom
- Hopi
- Kohuana
- Navajo, or Diné
- Yaqui, or Hiakim
- Zuni, or A:shiwi
- Dilzhe'e Apache
- San Carlos Apache, Nné - Coyotero or Western Apaches
- White Mountain Apache, Ndé - Coyotero or Western Apaches
- Chiricahua
- Hualapai, or Hwal `Bay
- Havasupai, or Havasuw `Baaja
- Yavapai, or Kewevkepaya, Wipukpaya, Tolkepaya, and Yavepe (four separate groups)
- Tewa
- Chemehuevi
- Southern Ute
- Southern Paiute
Tribes of the prehistoric period native to Arizona: