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Apache
The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north into the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 CE.
Navajo
The Navajo are an Indigenous People of the Southwestern United States. Their language is Navajo (), a Southern Athabascan language. The states with the largest Diné populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,305). More than three-quarters of the Diné population resides in these two states.
Hopi people
The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation at the border of Arizona and California.
Puebloan peoples
Native Americans in the Southwestern United States
Zuni people
Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley
Mojave people
Native American people from the southwestern United States
Chiricahua
Chiricahua ( ) is a band of Apache Native Americans.
Akimel O'odham
Native American people
Yaqui people
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, an Uto-Aztecan language.
Tohono O'odham
group of Native American people
Havasupai Tribe
thumb|Havasupai Basket,
Yavapai people
The Yavapai ( ) are a Native American tribe in Arizona. Their Yavapai language belongs to the Upland Yuman branch of the proposed Hokan language family.
Hualapai
The Hualapai ( , ) are a federally recognized Native American tribe in Arizona with about 2300 enrolled citizens. Approximately 1353 enrolled citizens reside on the Hualapai Reservation, which spans over three counties in Northern Arizona (Coconino, Yavapai, and Mohave).
Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe
thumb|right|200px|Yumas in "United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Report of William H. Emory…" Washington, 1857, Volume I The Quechan (Quechan: Kwatsáan 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the Mexican border. Despite their name, they are not related to the Quechua people of the Andes. Members are enrolled in the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. The federally recognized Quechan tribe's main office is located in Winterhaven, California.
Cocopah people
The Cocopah (Cocopah: Xawiƚƚ Kwñchawaay) are Native Americans who live in Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona, United States.
Maricopa people
tribe
Chemehuevi people
The Chemehuevi ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute. Today, Chemehuevi people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes:
Tewa people
thumb|upright=1.25|Chaiwa, a Tewa girl with a butterfly whorl hairstyle, photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1922 thumb|Tewa girls, 1922, photographed by Edward S. Curtis thumb|A Southern Tewa (Tano) anthropomorphic figure with rattle, petroglyph in the [[Galisteo Basin, a major Tano homeland prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680]] The Tewa are a linguistic group of Pueblo Native Americans who speak the Tewa language and share the Pueblo culture. Their homelands are on or near the Rio Grande in New Mexico north of Santa Fe. They comprise the following communities: Nambé Pueblo Pojoaque Pueblo
Sinagua
thumb|Sinagua petroglyphs at the V Bar V Heritage Site
Arizona Tewa
The Hopi-Tewa (also Tano, Southern Tewa, Hano, Thano, or Arizona Tewa) are a Tewa Pueblo group that resides on the eastern part of the Hopi Reservation on or near First Mesa in northeastern Arizona.
Tonto Apache
indigenous people of North America
Halchidhoma
The Halchidhoma (Maricopa: Xalychidom Piipaa or Xalychidom Piipaash – 'people who live toward the water') are a Native American tribe now living mostly on the Salt River reservation, but formerly native to the area along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona when first contacted by Europeans. In the early nineteenth century, under pressure from their hostile Mohave and Quechan neighbors, they moved to the middle Gila River, where some merged with the Maricopa, and others went on to Salt River and maintained an independent identity.
Sobaipuri
The Sobaipuri were one of many Indigenous groups occupying Sonora and what is now Arizona at the time Europeans first entered the American Southwest. They were an O'odham group who occupied southern Arizona and northern Sonora (the Pimería Alta) in the 15th–19th centuries. They were a subgroup of the O'odham or Pima, surviving members of which include the residents of San Xavier del Bac which is now part of the Tohono O'odham Nation and the Akimel O'odham.
Ak-Chin Indian Community
federally-recognized tribe of Native Americans in Arizona, United States
Hia C-eḍ O'odham
Indigenous tribe in the United States and Mexico
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Native American tribe in Arizona
Cocopah Indian Reservation
Native American reservation in Arizona, United States
Southern Paiute
Native American Tribe
Yavapai-Apache Nation
federally recognized Native American tribe
San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona
federally recognized band of Southern Paiute people
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Federally recognized Native American tribe
Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians
Native American Nation