Ethnicity in the Southwest Boarder Area

The Southwest's American Indian population is culturally diverse. The largest tribes are the Navajo in the "Four Corners" area, where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet; several Apache tribes in Arizona and New Mexico; the various Pueblo groups in New Mexico; the Papago in southern Arizona; the Hopi in northwestern Arizona; and the Utes in southwestern Colorado.

Most of the American Indians are found in the major reservation areas centers on the four corners. The largest amongst all of these is the reservation which spans 62,000-square-kilometers, is home to the Navajo which has 10 times the population of any other reservation. Arizona and New Mexico together are the home fro about 300,000 American Indians. Many rural counties of the lower Rio Grande Valley and most in southern Colorado and eastern New Mexico have lost population during the last few decades, sharing the fate of other strongly rural areas in America.