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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.

Contemporary tribes native to Arizona are:

• Papago, or Tohono O'odham
• Pima, or Akimel O'odham
• Quechan, or Yuma
• Cocopa, or Cocomaricopa
• Mojave
• Maricopa, or Pipaash
• Hopi
• Navajo, or Diné
• Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme
• Zuni
• ApacheThis article is about the Native American tribe, for other uses of the word see Apache (disambiguation Apache is the collective name given to several culturally related tribes of Native Americans, aboriginal inhabitants of North America, who speak an Apac, Ndé, or Nné - Coyotero (White Mountain and San Carlos) Apaches
• Hualapai , or Hwal `Bay
• HavasupaiThe Havasupai are a Native American tribe inhabiting the western Grand Canyon area. The Havasupai village, Supai, has been their home for Hundreds of years. External links Native American tribes., or Havasuw `Baaja
• YavapaiYavapai is a Native American tribe which lives on two reservations southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona: the Camp Verde Yavapai-Apache Reservation and the Yavapai-Prescott Reservation in Prescott, Arizona, as well as the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation. There is, or Kewevkepaya, Wipukpaya, Tolkepaya, and Yavepe (four separate groups)
• Tewa
• ChemehueviThe Chemehuevi are a Native American tribe who live with the Mohave in and near the Colorado River Reservation in Arizona. For more information about activities on the Reservation see Mohave. Native American tribes.
• Southern UteThe Ute are a tribe of Native Americans of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Ute reservations are located in eastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. The state of Utah is named for this tribe. See also Ute mythology. In Australian usage, the word ute is sho
• Southern PaiutePaiute (sometimes written as Piute) refers to two related groups Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute--of Native North Americans speaking languages belonging to the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of Native American languages. The name the Paiute us

Tribes of the prehistoric period native to Arizona:

• Anasazi - Four Corners area
• HohokamHohokam is the name of one of the four major prehistoric archaeological traditions of the American Southwest. Archaeologist Harold S. Gladwin applied the name meaning "those who have vanished" to the remains he excavated in the Lower Gila Valley. The Hoho, or Hoo-hoogam - As far North the Valley of the Sun and as far south as Mexico.