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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 are accustomed to play a similar game which has been described under the name "Hoop and Pole".

From Indian Games : an historical research by Davis, Andrew McFarland

The only Indians we had seen up to that time were the peaceful tribes of the Yumas, Cocopahs and Mojaves, who lived along the Colorado.

From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha

Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick