page_title: Indigenous peoples of Arizona
section_title: Prehistoric cultures in Arizona
hierarchical_section_title: Indigenous peoples of Arizona / Prehistoric cultures in Arizona
caption_attribution_description: English: Sears-Kay Ruin Fort rooms. Located atop a desert foothill in the Tonto National Forest on the outskirts of the town of Carefree, Az. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in November 24, 1995. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 95001310
context_page_description: 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.
  Twenty tribes are members of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona.
context_section_description: 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
caption: Hohokam fort known as Sears-Kay Ruin, built C. 1050 AD and located in the foothills of Carefree, Arizona.
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