Indian Reservations in Arizona

One-seventh of all the Indians in America live in Arizona, where one of every ten persons is an Indian. Fourteen tribes, numbering some 50,000 persons, dwell on reservations within our borders. Their land is a vast domain of 30,531 square miles, a sizable portion of the 113,810 square miles of earth's surface that is Arizona. Their land is part desert, part mountain,, slashed in places by great canyons, sprinkled with high plateus and broad mesas. They were here when the Spaniards came, and some of their tribes fought the Spaniards with such fury that they delayed American colonization of the west for many decades. Their presence adds to the color and enchantment of this Empire of the West called Arizona.