Native American Tribes In Arizona
Native Americans have inhabited what is now Arizona for thousands of years. 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.
Twenty tribes are members of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA).
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