Tribal land
This is a list of Native American reservations in the U.S. state of Arizona.
This is a list of Native American reservations in the U.S. state of Arizona.
| Official name | Tribe(s) | Endonym | Est. | Pop. (2010) [1] | Area mi2 (km2) [2] | County | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ak-Chin Indian Community | Pima, Maricopa | ʼAkĭ Ciñ O'odham | 1912 | 1,001 | 34.1 (88.3) | Pinal | |
| Cocopah Indian Reservation | Cocopah | Xawitt Kwñchawaay | 1917 | 817 | 9.4 (24.3) | Yuma | |
| Colorado River Indian Reservation | Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, Navajo | Mojave: 'Aha Havasuu Navajo: Tó Ntsʼósíkooh | 1865 | 7,077 | 419.7 (1,087.0) | La Paz | Extends into California (Riverside, San Bernardino) |
| Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation | Yavapai | A'ba:ja | 1903 | 971 | 38.5 (99.7) | Maricopa | |
| Fort Mojave Indian Reservation | Mohave | Pipa Aha Macav | 1890 | 1,004 | 65.4 (169.4) | Mohave | Extends into California (San Bernardino) and Nevada (Clark) |
| Fort Yuma Indian Reservation | Quechan | Kwatsáan | 1884 | 2,197 | 68.1 (176.4) | Yuma | Extends into California (Imperial) |
| Gila River Indian Community | Pima, Maricopa | O'odham/Pima: Keli Akimel Oʼotham Maricopa: | 1859 | 11,712 | 583.7 (1,511.9) | Pinal, Maricopa | |
| Havasupai Indian Reservation | Havasupai | Havsuw' Baaja | 1880 | 465 | 293.8 (760.9) | Coconino | |
| Hopi Reservation | Hopi | Hopituskwa | 1882 | 7,185 | 2,531.8 (6,557.3) | Navajo, Coconino | |
| Hualapai Indian Reservation | Hualapai | Hwalbáy | 1882 | 1,335 | 1,550.2 (4,015.0) | Coconino, Mohave | |
| Kaibab Indian Reservation | Paiute | Kai'vi'vits | 1907 | 240 | 188.7 (488.7) | Mohave, Coconino | |
| Navajo Nation | Navajo | Naabeehó Bináhásdzo | 1868 | 173,667 | 27,413 (70,999.3) | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | Extends into New Mexico (San Juan, McKinley, Sandoval, Cibola, Rio Arriba) and Utah (San Juan), observes Daylight Saving Time (unlike the rest of Arizona) |
| Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation | Yaqui | Pasqua Hiaki | 1978 | 3,484 | 1.8 (4.6) | Pima | |
| Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community | Pima, Maricopa | O'odham/Pima: Onk Akimel O'odham Maricopa: Xalychidom Piipaash | 1879 | 6,289 | 82.2 (212.9) | Maricopa | |
| San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation | Apache (Chiricahua) | Tsékʼáádn | 1872 | 10,068 | 2,853.1 (7,389.5) | Graham, Gila, Pinal | |
| Tohono O'odham Nation | Tohono O'odham | Tohono O'odham | 1916 | 10,201 | 4,446.3 (11,515.9) | Pima, Pinal, Maricopa | The Tohono O'odham Nation governs four separate pieces of land, including the Tohono O'odham and San Xavier Indian Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend. |
| Tonto Apache Reservation | Apache (Tonto) | Dilzhę́’é | 1974 | 120 | 0.13 (0.34) | Gila | |
| White Mountain Apache Reservation | Apache (White Mountain) | Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee | 1891 | 13,409 | 2,609.4 (6,758.3) | Navajo, Apache, Gila | |
| Yavapai-Apache Nation | Yavapai, Apache (Tonto) | Yavapai: Wipuhk’a’ba Apache: Dil’zhe’e | 1903 | 718 | 1.0 (2.6) | Yavapai | |
| Yavapai-Prescott Reservation | Yavapai | Wiikvteepaya | 1935 | 192 | 2.2 (5.7) | Yavapai | |
| Zuni Heaven Reservation | Zuni | A:shiwi | 1984 | – | 19.5 (50.5) | Apache | Over 95% of Zuni land is located in New Mexico (McKinley, Cibola, Catron). Zuni Heaven is primarily a pilgrimage site and has no permanent residents. |
Mohave or Mojave are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes territory within the borders of California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples.
The Quechan are an aboriginal 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 into the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. The federally recognized Quechan tribe's main office is located in Winterhaven, California. Its operations and the majority of its reservation land are located in California, United States.
The Navajo Nation is a Native American territory covering about 17,544,500 acres, occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and a smaller portion covering southeastern Utah, in the United States. This is the largest land area retained by a Native American tribe in the United States. By area, the Navajo Nation is larger than ten U.S. states. In 2010, the total population of Navajo tribal members was 332,129 with 173,667 living within the boundaries of the reservation and 158,462 tribal members outside of the reservation. Metropolitan areas accounted for 26 percent of the population, border towns accounted for ten percent, and the remaining 17 percent were living elsewhere in the U.S. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona.
The Fort Mohave Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation along the Colorado River, currently encompassing 23,669 acres (95.79 km2) in Arizona, 12,633 acres (51.12 km2) in California, and 5,582 acres (22.59 km2) in Nevada. The reservation is home to approximately 1,100 members of the federally recognized Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California, and Nevada, a federally recognized tribe of Mohave people.
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, 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. Over a quarter of the area of the state is reservation land.
An Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a federally recognised Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government in which it is located. Some of the country's 574 federally recognized tribes govern more than one of the 326 Indian reservations in the United States, while some share reservations, and others have no reservation at all. Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Dawes Act facilitated sales to non–Native Americans, resulting in some reservations becoming severely fragmented, with pieces of tribal and privately held land being treated as separate enclaves. This jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political and legal difficulties.
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, formerly known as the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, a federally recognized tribe of Yavapai people. Fewer than 200 people are enrolled in the tribe.
Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws in the United States and the former Thirteen colonies that define Native American status by fractions of Native American ancestry. These laws were enacted by the American government as a way to establish legally defined racial population groups. By contrast, many tribes and nations do not include blood quantum as part of their own enrollment criteria.
The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 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. Once nicknamed "Hell's Forty Acres" during the late 19th century due to poor health and environmental conditions, today's San Carlos Apaches successfully operate a Chamber of Commerce, the Apache Gold and Apache Sky Casinos, a Language Preservation program, a Culture Center, and a Tribal College.
The Havasupai Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Havasupai people, surrounded entirely by the Grand Canyon National Park, in Coconino county in Arizona, United States. It is considered one of America's most remote Indian reservations. The reservation is governed by a seven-member tribal council, led by a chairman who is elected from among the members of the council. The capital of the reservation is Supai, situated at the bottom of Cataract Canyon, one of the tributary canyons of the Grand Canyon. Havasupai is a combination of the words Havasu and pai, thus meaning "people of the blue-green waters".
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Yaqui Native Americans in southern Arizona.
The Colorado River Indian Tribes is a federally recognized tribe consisting of the four distinct ethnic groups associated with the Colorado River Indian Reservation: Chemehuevi, the Mohave, Hopi, and Navajo. The tribe has about 4,277 enrolled members. A total population of 9,485 currently resides within the tribal reservation according to the 2012-2016 American Community Survey data.
The Zuni Indian Reservation, also known as Pueblo of Zuni, is the homeland of the Zuni tribe of Native Americans. In Zuni language, the Zuni Pueblo people are referred to as A:shiwi, and the Zuni homeland is referred to as Halona Idiwan’a meaning Middle Place.
American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as AmericanIndian Residential Schools, were established in the United States from the mid 17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In the process, these schools denigrated Native American culture and made children give up their languages and religion. At the same time the schools provided a basic Western education. These boarding schools were first established by Christian missionaries of various denominations. The missionaries were often approved by the federal government to start both missions and schools on reservations, especially in the lightly populated areas of the West. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries especially, the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to Native American children on reservations, and later established its own schools on reservations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) also founded additional off-reservation boarding schools based on the assimilation model. These sometimes drew children from a variety of tribes. In addition, religious orders established off-reservation schools.
The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, formerly the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe and Indian reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona about 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Phoenix.
Arizona, a state in the southwestern region of the United States of America, is known for its high population of Native Americans. Arizona has the third highest number of Native Americans of any state in the Union. Out of the entire US population of 2.9 million Native Americans, roughly 286,680 live in Arizona, representing 10% of the country's total Native American population. Only California and Oklahoma have more Native Americans than Arizona by number. Arizona also has the highest proportion of land allocated to Native American reservations, at 28%. Arizona has five of the twelve largest Indian reservations in the United States, including the largest, the Navajo Nation, and the third-largest, the Tohono O'odham Nation. Also, Arizona has the largest number of Native American language speakers in the United States.
See also: Indigenous peoples of Arizona |
