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Indigenous peoples of Arizona are the Native American people who currently live or have historically lived in what is now the state of Arizona. There are 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona, including 17 with reservations that lie entirely within its borders. Reservations make up over a quarter of the state's land area.
Fort Mojave Indian Reservation: Mohave: Pipa Aha Macav 1890 1,004 65.4 (169.4) Mohave: Extends into California (San Bernardino) and Nevada Fort Yuma Indian Reservation: Quechan: Kwatsáan 1884 2,197 68.1 (176.4) Yuma: Extends into California Gila River Indian Community: Pima, Maricopa: O'odham/Pima: Keli Akimel Oʼotham Maricopa: 1859 11,712
The Fort Mohave Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation along the Colorado River, currently encompassing 23,669 acres (95.79 km 2) in Arizona, 12,633 acres (51.12 km 2) in California, and 5,582 acres (22.59 km 2) in the southernmost point of Nevada.
From 1200 CE into the historic era a people collectively known as the La Junta Indians lived at the junction of the Conchos River and Rio Grande on the border of Texas and Mexico. [8] Between 700 and 1550 CE, the Patayan culture inhabited parts of modern-day Arizona, California and Baja California.
A map of California tribal groups and languages at the time of European contact. The Indigenous peoples of California are the Indigenous inhabitants who have previously lived or currently live within the current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans.
Ancestral Puebloans spanned Northern Arizona and New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Utah, and a part of Southeastern Nevada. They primarily lived north of the Patayan, Sinagua, Hohokam, Trincheras, Mogollon, and Casas Grandes cultures of the Southwest [1] and south of the Fremont culture of the Great Basin.
The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation (Western Apache: Tsékʼáádn), in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe as well as surrounding Yavapai and Apache bands removed from their original homelands under a strategy devised by General George Crook of setting the various Apache tribes against one another. [1]
Although their way of life was greatly impacted by Mormon settlement, the Paiute Indians continued to live in the area and by 1907 the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation was established, surrounding the privately owned Pipe Spring ranch. In 1923, the Pipe Spring ranch was purchased and set aside as a national monument to be a memorial to western ...