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The Heard Museum in Phoenix is a great place to introduce kids to Native cultures and art. Tour Native American art exhibits. Explore the replica of a Zuni Pueblo. Try your hand at Native American crafts. And partake in one or more of the many Native American cultural programs and events held throughout the year.

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Facts about Arizona's First People

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There There are lots of facts about Arizona's first people that make learning fun. Did you know that:

Arizona is home to 21 Native American tribes and over 250,000 Native Americans.
The Tohono O'odham Nation is the second largest Native American community in the United States.
The name of each Native American tribe has a special meaning to its people. For example, Hualapai means people of the tall pines; Havasupai means people of the blue-green waters.
The Gila River and Tohono O'odham tribes can trace their roots to the Hohokam, a prehistoric culture known for their canals.
The Zuni and Hopi people are descendents of the Anasazi, also referred to as the Ancestral Puebloans.
Neither the Navajo and Apache are native to Arizona. Both tribes migrated to the area after the 10th century.
The pueblo may be the best known of Arizona's Native American dwellings but it's not the only. The Navajos lived in hogans, the Apache in wickiup.
The Navajo weren't the only Arizona tribe to be forcefully marched from their homeland, the Yavapai and Apache were forced to march too.