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Hopi
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Early fiction and even some early scientific reports used the term Moqui instead of Hopi.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921
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Naturally the Hopi do not like being called Moqui, though no open resentment is ever shown.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921
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Uncle Sam has summarily arrested nineteen Moqui Indians ... and taken them to Alcatraz island, all because they would not let their children go to school.
some stuff. smillaraaq 2010
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Coronado reached the Zuñis, and his lieutenants reached the Moqui pueblos and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
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Though along the Moqui trail at no point were they very far from the Grand Canyon, that gorge was not noted in Hamblin's narrative, for the brethren were not sight-seeing.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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J.W. Visited Paiutes, met Hamblin, in council with Navajo, first exp. reached mouth of Paria, to Moqui towns, to Salt Lake, explorations from Paria, at Kanab W.sh,
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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There was serious consideration by the Church authorities of a declaration that the Moqui (Hopi) Indians of northern Arizona had a dialect that at least embraced many Welsh words.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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Swinging to the northwest, the Water House and other clans formed the southern branch of the three from which the Moqui, or Hopi, people are descended.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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In this same year, according to Dellenbaugh, Major Powell built a rough scow, in order to reach the Moqui towns.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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He passed by a Moqui village and thence on to the overland mail route.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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