Arizona History
Arizona Stories, Eight’s award-winning series, chronicles the remarkable history of the Grand Canyon state. Arizona Stories showcases inspiring biographies of the trailblazers and travels back to pivotal dates in our state’s heritage.Homolovi | 
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At Homolovi Ruins State Park just north of Winslow, a cooperative effort between the Hopi Tribe, Arizona State Parks and the University of Arizona has revealed clues about life on the Colorado Plateau over seven hundred years ago.
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Orme Dam | Watch the Video
This is the story of a Central Arizona Project proposed dam that met resistance in the seventies and eighties from the Yavapai Indian Nation, the Maricopa Audubon Society and others. The dam was never built, defeated by the so-called “little people” who fought to prevent it.
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Ira Hayes
Seventy thousand marines were sent to capture the Island of Iwo Jima. More than 23,000 died trying. Six became a symbol of courage for our nation at war. It took just one click of a camera. Of the six flag raisers forever frozen atop Mt. Suribachi in this famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press, one was a Pima Indian from Arizona. His name was Ira Hamilton Hayes.
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Hohokam | Watch the Video
The Hohokam were the original inhabitants of the Valley of the Sun. These ancient people lived in central and southern Arizona for more than a millenium before disappearing about 1450. They were expert farmers who engineered hundreds of miles of canals to irrigate their fields. This feature will explore the Hohokam civilization and examine the rich cultural legacy they left behind as well as possible reasons for their decline and lessons our modern civilization can learn from their experience.
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Hubbell Trading Post | Watch the Video
When John Lorenzo Hubbell opened what would become his flagship trading post on the Navajo reservation, it was 1878. Barter had always played an important role in the tribe's economy, and Hubbell's timing couldn't have been more favorable. The Navajos had survived forced exile to Fort Sumner , New Mexico , a decade earlier, and after years of recovery, they were ready for commerce and the many new goods the outside world had to offer. Enterprising businessmen like Hubbell recognized this valuable opportunity, and trading posts became an increasingly important part of reservation life.
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San Carlos Submerged | Watch the Video
Water covers the Apaches' pain…the pain of a past when the United States forced them onto the San Carlos Agency where they faced challenges and many difficulties. Their history disappears and reappears with the rise and fall of the San Carlos reservoir.
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Navajo Code Talkers | Watch the Video
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor , Navajos who were fluent in both Navajo and English were recruited from boarding schools and communities throughout the reservation to join the U.S. Marine Corps. After boot camp, young Navajo recruits were sent to Camp Pendleton , the U.S. Marine training base near San Diego . There, they attended a special school
The first group of 29 used the Navajo language to devise a communication code. They created a dictionary using Navajo words as letters of the alphabet and for military terms.
The Navajo code was so valuable in winning World War II that it remained a classified secret until 1968.
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The Schwemberger Collection | Watch the Video
At the turn of the century, Franciscan Brother Simeon Schwemberger traveled throughout the Navajo Reservation and beyond, photographing native people, their land and how they lived their lives. His unique photographic legacy lives on for the benefit of historians and admirers in the care of Arizona State University.
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