First Nations of Arizona

Native Arizonans, officially "Arizona First Nations", have inhabited what is now Arizona for thousands of years. Arizona remains a State with one of the largest percentages of First Nations in the United States of North Aegea, and has the second largest total First Nation population of any State. In addition, the majority of the Navajo Nation, the largest First Nation reservation in the United States, and the entire Tohono O'odham Nation, the second largest, are located in Arizona. Over a quarter of the territory of the State is held in trust by the Arizona Department of Home Affairs for Arizona First Nations. In Arizona, First Nation land is governed primarily according to the First Nation that inhabits that land; however, the State does have some, albeit minor, say in how these lands are used, but by convention usually defers to the First Nations.

Legal status
In most cases, a sizable amount State law does not operate on First Nation lands. One major exception is Title 13, Arizona Revised Statutes (the Criminal Code of Arizona), in which First Nations partner with the Arizona State Troopers and the relevant county Sheriffs to enforce all or part of Title 13 on their land; however, most First Nations have made some reservations with regard to certain parts of the criminal code, especially when a provision of the criminal code conflicts with their culture or religion, in which case the conflicting provision or provisions of the code are not enforced against tribal members but are enforced against all non-tribal members.

Twenty tribes are members of the Assembly of Arizona First Nations (AAFN).

Contemporary peoples native to Arizona

 * Chemehuevi
 * Chiricahua
 * Cocopa, or Xawitt Kwñchawaay
 * Dilzhe'e Apache
 * Havasupai, or Havasuw `Baaja
 * Hopi
 * Hualapai, or Hwal `Baaja
 * Maricopa, or Piipaash
 * Mohave, or Hamakhava (also spelled Mojave)
 * Navajo, or Diné
 * Southern Paiute
 * Akimel O'odham, formerly Pima
 * Quechan, or Yuma
 * San Carlos Apache, Nné - Coyotero or Western Apaches
 * Tewa
 * Tohono O'odham, formerly Papago
 * Southern Ute
 * White Mountain Apache, Ndé - Coyotero or Western Apaches
 * Xalychidom, or Halchidhoma
 * Yavapai, or Kwevkepaya, Wipukepa, Tolkepaya, and Yavepé (four separate groups)
 * Zuni, or A:shiwi


 * Vampires of Arizona

Prehistoric cultures in Arizona

 * Ancestral Pueblo, Four Corners area
 * Hohokam, or Ho:-ho:gam, as far north as the Valley of the Sun and as far south as Mexico.
 * Mogollon
 * Patayan, western region
 * Sinagua, area around present-day Flagstaff


 * Ancestral Arizona vampires, Arizona and New Mexico

First Nation entities in Arizona
This is a list of all State recognized tribes in Arizona currently registered with the Arizona Department of Home Affairs; however, the Commonwealth of Arizona is treated by the State of Arizona as a foreign State, and so conducts relations with the Commonwealth through the Arizona Department of State and Foreign Affairs.
 * Commonwealth of Arizona (nation-state of Arizona vampires)


 * Ak Chin Community
 * Cocopah Nation
 * Colorado River First Nations
 * Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
 * Fort Mohave First Nation
 * Gila River First Nation Community
 * Havasupai Nation
 * Hopi Nation
 * Hualapai First Nation Band
 * Kaibab Band of Paiute First Nations
 * Navajo Nation
 * Pasqua Yaqui Nation
 * Quechan Band
 * Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community
 * San Carlos Apache Tribe
 * Tohono O'ohdam Nation
 * Tonto Apache Tribe
 * White Mountain Apache Tribe
 * Yavapai-Apache Nation
 * Yavapai-Prescott Tribe