- a variation of Mohave.
Mojave
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Mojaves,
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Mojave
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hit the Mojave Desert about halfway between Edwards Air Force Base and Ridgecrest Monday, causing light shaking near the epicenter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
“This groundwater mining proposal would drain the desert and rob the Mojave of its rare springs and wildlife habitat,” said Chance Wilcox, California desert associate director of the National Parks Conservation Assn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Chairman Timothy Williams of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe said the company’s plan “to pump and sell 25 times more groundwater each year than the aquifer can replenish would desecrate our traditional territories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Too civilized, they said, and downright unnatural, too, since no town the size of Blythe had any business existing out in the Mojave Desert.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Avi Kwa Ame, for the Fort Mojaves, is not a recreational place.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
The Mojaves, whose village was five miles above La Paz, came down on freshly made balsas every day, but walked home, carrying their paddles.
From Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
From there he continued through Téjon Pass into the San Joaquin Valley, descended it to the Tulare region, emerged through an eastern pass, probably the Tehachapi, and recrossed the desert to the Mojaves.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
The Mojaves are accustomed to play a similar game which has been described under the name "Hoop and Pole".
From Indian Games : an historical research by Andrew McFarland Davis
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