If you are thinking of the Anasazi people, the name has been applied in modern times and it is definitely not the real name of those very ancient Pueblo people - we can never know what they called themselves.
Anasazi is from the Navajo term AnaasázÃ, meaning "ancient enemies".
Cochise is remembered by Cochise, Arizona.
The name of one person that was an ancient Indian scholar was Atreya. The name of another person that was an ancient Indian scholar was Agnivesa. They were both around in the time around 800 BC.
Geronimo
Mexica
chaturangam
Chaturanga .
Chaturanga .
gurati
Vimana.
"Vimana"
The name Arizona is the Spanish interpretation of 'arizuma,' an Aztec Indian word that means 'silver-bearing.'
Because it was built at the site of the ancient Hohokam civilization, it was called Phoenix, a city risiing from an ancient civilization.