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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.
Papago , or Tohono O'odham Pima , or Akimel O'odham Quechan , or YumaCocopa , or CocomaricopaMojave Maricopa , or Piipaash Halchidhoma Hopi Kohuana Navajo , or Diné Yaqui , Hiaki , or YoemeZuni , or A:shiwi Tonto 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) (see Yavapai-Prescott Tribe , Yavapai-Apache Nation Tewa Chemehuevi Southern Ute Southern Paiute Tribes of the prehistoric period native to Arizona:
Anasazi - Four Corners areaHohokam, or Ho:-ho:gam - As far North the Valley of the Sun and as far south as Mexico.
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