In Arizona, 22 federally recognized tribes inhabit nearly every region of the state, according to the Arizona State Museum, but the Hia-Ced isn’t one of them. But some descendants of those four surviving families are working to change that. They’re researching the history of the Hia-Ced to prove their existence and distinctions and working to advocate for recognition with the federal government.

The woman was a native Arizonan, her family going back six generations. Hours after her congresswoman was gunned down at a neighborhood supermarket, she stood at a candlelight vigil on a street corner and clutched a sign that read "Peace."

John Madsen scans a hillside littered with a layer of softball-size pinkish stones, pointing out what's missing from the scene - larger rocks that had been darkened by age and decorated by a long-vanished civilization. An entire hillside of Hohokam rock art had been stolen.