Who was the first person to settle in Arizona?

Answer 1

Native Americas inhabited the area that is now Arizona many thousands of years before Europeans came to the region. The earliest settlements were those of the Hohokam, Anasazi, and Mogollon.The Hohokam inhabited the valleys of the Salt and Gila Rivers between 300 and 1200 AD.

The first white man to enter the Arizona region was a Franciscan friar, Marcos de Niza, who passed through the San Pedro Valley on 1539.

Father Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit priest, came to Arizona in 1692 and traveled as far north as present day Fairbank. He explored the region extensively and founded 24 missions throughout Arizona including Guevavi (1692), Tumacacori (1696), and San Xavier del Bac (1700).

Spanish troops established the first white settlement in Arizona in 1752 at Tubac.

Answer 2

The first known settlers in the Salt River Valley where Phoenix is located where the Ho Ho Kam tribe of Native Americans. Not much is known of the Hohokam tribe, not even the name by which they knew themselves; "Ho Ho Kam" or "O'odham" is the title given to them by their relation to other tribes who eventually came to and passed through the area, finding their settlements at Pueblo Grande and Mesa along the way.

Answer 3

john Campbell

Answer 4

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