North Arizona is home to the Navajo Nation and the city of Flagstaff. Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to numerous tourist attractions including: Grand Canyon National Park, Sedona, and Oak Creek Canyon. Historic U.S. Route 66 is the main east–west street in town. Flagstaff is home to the main campus of Northern Arizona University.
The Navajo Nation is a Native American territory covering about 17,544,500 acres (27,413 sq mi), occupying large portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and a smaller portion covering southeastern Utah. This is the largest land area retained by a Native American tribe in the United States. By area, the Navajo Nation is larger than ten U.S. states.
Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, a Navajo, is California’s first-ever Native American federal judge and just the fifth Indigenous woman in U.S. history to serve on a federal court. Sykes joins four other Native American judges actively serving on the federal bench out of nearly 900 authorized federal judgeships.
Today, Arizona cities and rural communities are embracing cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity, unity and has many historic ethnicities in business-friendly communities. Many of these north Arizona communities are strong supporters of Indigenous businesses in the state.
The State of Arizona’s citizens are rolling out the “Welcome to Arizona” and their “You’re Always welcome” Arizona inviting welcome mats to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new business services, new residents and many more value-added Northern Arizona businesses.