- a variation of Moki.
Moqui
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Utah may have wild Moqui Caverns, gorgeous light-filled sand caves in Kanab, but sand mining created them in the 1970s.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020
Mission work, and to spare, would interest you at a Moqui Pueblo, and I can recommend one whose primeval, idyllic repose dwells in my memory like an eclogue of Virgil's.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
After a short visit in the pueblo the Spaniards descended the rock to their camp, and thence marched away on their long and dangerous journey to Moqui and Zuñi.
From The Spanish Pioneers by Lummis, Charles F.
For a brief space the red glow grew blackened where he had fallen, but an instant later the intense heat had consumed him, and nothing remained to mark the end of the ambitious young Moqui.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
Our people and the other Apaches, the Navajos, Moqui and neighboring tribes used to appoint deputies twice each year.
From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Stuart, Gordon
One can easily see how the forefathers of our Moquis and Zu�is may have come to prefer the security gained by living more closely together and building impregnable fortresses.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
Jeffries Mayberry, seeking a convenient spot from which to keep up his surveillance over his Moquis, had stumbled upon it by accident, and with an old woodsman's skill had rendered it quite habitable.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
The tribes residing in the Territory of Arizona are the Pimas and Maricopas, Papagoes, Mohaves, Moquis, and Orivas Pueblos, Yumas, Yavapais, Hualapais, and different bands of the Apaches.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Walker, Francis Amasa
The rebellious Moquis, thoroughly cowed by their lesson, went peaceably back to the reservation, and accepted Black Cloud once more as their chief.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
Through this man, too, he had become quite an intimate of the Moquis, as we have seen.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
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