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.
Ganado is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County,Arizona,United States. The population was 883 at the 2020 census,reduced from 1,210 at the 2010 census.
The Navajo Nation,also known as Navajoland,is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona,northwestern New Mexico,and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock,Arizona.
The Hopi Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people,surrounded entirely by the Navajo Nation,in Navajo and Coconino counties in northeastern Arizona,United States. The site has a land area of 2,531.773 sq mi (6,557.262 km2) and,as of the 2020 census had a population of 7,791.
The 2006 congressional elections in Arizona were elections for Arizona's delegation to the United States House of Representatives,which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 7,2006. Arizona has eight seats,as apportioned during the 2000 United States census. Prior to the election,Republicans held six of the eight seats and Democrats held two. In the 8th district,Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe retired,leaving an open seat. Following the elections,Democrats gained two seats at the expense of the Republicans,who lost two.
Albert A. Hale was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the Arizona Senate from 2004 to 2011 and in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017.
The 2008 congressional elections in Arizona were held on November 4,2008,to determine who would represent the state of Arizona in the United States House of Representatives,coinciding with the presidential election. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected would serve in the 111th Congress from January 4,2009,until January 3,2011.
Lynda Morgan Lovejoy is an American politician. She is a former Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate.
Robert Meza is an American politician from Phoenix,Arizona who served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 30 from 2019 to 2023. He previously served in the Arizona State Senate from 2011 to 2019,and also served four prior terms in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011.
Ben Shelly was the 7th president of the Navajo Nation. He was the first president to have been elected both president and vice president of the Navajo Nation,as well as the first New Mexican Navajo to hold the Navajo presidency.
Time in Arizona,as in all U.S. states,is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation as well as by state and tribal law.
Jamescita Mae Peshlakai is a former Democratic member of the Arizona State Senate,serving from 2017 to 2021. She previously served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 until 2015,and served as co-Minority Whip for the 2018 sitting of the state senate. Peshlakai is a member of the Navajo Nation. She served in the Persian Gulf War. Before her legislative service,Peshlakai provided agricultural outreach to Native Americans on behalf of the USDA.
Carlyle W. Begay is a Diné-American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the seventh district in the Arizona State Senate which is the largest Legislative State District in the Continental United States.
Jack C. Jackson Sr. was an American politician who served in the Arizona Senate and Arizona House of Representatives. He was a Navajo. He was the father of Jack Jackson Jr.,also a state politician in Arizona.
Sylvia Laughter was an American politician who was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from January 1999 until January 2005. She was the first Navajo woman to serve in the Arizona legislature,as well as the first and only politically independent legislator to serve in the state legislature since Arizona's statehood in 1912.
John Lorenzo Hubbell was a member of the Arizona State Senate. He was elected to serve in the 1st Arizona State Legislature from Apache County. He served in the Senate from March 1912 until March 1914. Hubbell was the long-time owner of the Hubbell Trading Post established in 1878 on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado,Arizona. The trading post is preserved as the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site.
Buu Van Nygren is a Navajo politician currently serving as the 10th President of the Navajo Nation.
Richelle Montoya is an American politician who is the 11th vice president of the Navajo Nation. She is the first woman elected to the executive office of Navajo Nation.
The 2004 Arizona Senate election was held on November 2,2004. Voters elected members of the Arizona Senate in all 30 of the state's legislative districts to serve a two-year term. Primary elections were held on September 7,2004.
