Moki
noun
Hopi.
Moki
American
[moh-kee]
/ ˈmoʊ ki /
Or
Moqui
noun
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Mokis,
plural
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Moki
plural
moki
British
/ ˈməʊkɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of moki
Māori
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By the time Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson settled in Sweden in the late 1960s, Cherry had gotten away from what some would consider jazz.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Ms Moki tries to deter the elephants with bright lights and loud noises and has developed several improvised techniques to prevent them from raiding her crops.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
For Ms Moki, this conflict is taking a heavy toll on her mental health, compounded by her extreme lack of sleep.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
Last year, Brooklyn’s nonprofit Blank Forms gallery highlighted the atmospheric collaboration of experimental trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry, which defied genres and fully encapsulated their married lives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
The main camp was established near Mashongnavi, one of the Moki villages.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell
O kia ka piko o ke olona, Stripped off is the bark of the alona, Ihi a ka ili no moki no lena, Peeled is the bark of the yellow moki.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
Even the Mokis, Tunis and Pimos still regard Mo-ti as immortal and await his return.
From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan
In 1630 Benavides speaks of the Mokis as being rapidly converted.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
I've got a bid from old Silver Arrow, and then I'm going to Walpi and see the Mokis dance.
From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland
He had, however, met with little resistance from the inhabitants, and, doubtless, did not deem the Mokis a warlike race.
From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various
Many of the ruins in this vicinity, according to the traditions of the Mokis, have been occupied in comparatively recent times—-a number of them having been abandoned since the Spanish conquest of the country.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell
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