- a variation of Moki.
Moqui
Americannoun
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Moquis,
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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
Santa Fé he found fortified and occupied by Tanos, but they yielded without a blow, as did all of the pueblos from Pecos to Moqui.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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 Charles F. Lummis
Hearing of the Moqui pueblos, to the north of Zuñi, in July Coronado sent Tobar to find them, which he succeeded in doing.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
The green-corn dance and the cachina of the Pueblos and the snake dance of the Moqui all have an economic foundation.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
On and on traveled the Moquis, almost noiselessly pitter-pattering along the dusty floor of the passage.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson
The Moquis and Zuñis, however, stubbornly resisted Spanish influence and harbored apostates.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
Such a type is that of the Moquis of northeastern Arizona.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
"Have you seen anything of any Moquis hereabout?"
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson
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 Lieut. Howard Payson
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