562

Federally Recognized
Tribes

307
Tribal Libraries, Museums,
Archives in US

32
Arizona Tribal Libraries,
Museums, Archives

Arizona Native Americans

255,879
10 % Arizona population

Arizona

28%
Native American Land

16
Arizona In 1950, the Hidatsa were pressured into signing away their sacred ancestral lands along the Missouri River in

Tribal Education North Dakota. At the signing, Hidatsa leader George Gillette was overcome by emotion.
The Garrison Dam subsequently flooded most of the traditional Mandan and Hidatsa village sites.

Departments

1
Arizona
Photo by Redwing Cloud

State Indian Education Act

In 2007 Chief Jaret Cardinal of Sucker Creek Cree First Nation signs
The United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty

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Tribal Historic
Preservation Offices UNITED LEAGUE OF INDIGENOUS NATIONS TREATY

MUTUAL COVENANTS

W e, the signatory Indigenous Nations, are committed to

providing the following mutual aid and assistance, to

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the best of our ability and in accordance with our own
prior and paramount Indigenous laws, customs and
traditions:

Arizona Commission of
Indian Affairs

UNITED LEAGUE OF INDIGENOUS NATIONS TREATY

15 1. Exchanging economic, legal, political, traditional

and technical knowledge regarding the protection of
Indigenous cultural properties.

Arizona Tribes with

Casinos

5 Tribal Institutional Review Boards

in Arizona
UNITED LEAGUE OF INDIGENOUS NATIONS TREATY

• Tohono O’odam 2. Collaborating on research on environmental issues that

• Hopi impact Indigenous homelands, including baseline studies
and socio-economic assessments that consider the cultural,
• Navajo social and sustainable uses of Indigenous Peoples’
territories and resources.
• White Mountain Apache
• Salt River
• 9 of the 34 Tribal Colleges

Community Based Activism

• Tribal internal focus
• Develop effective
relationships with Tribes
• Participatory
• Capacity Building
• Indigenous protocol

Indigenous Information Ecology

Tribal
Information
Environment
Library,
Cultural Resourc e Cent er,
Tri bal Comm unit y Coll ege,
Arc hi ve