Moqui

Ho·pi (h

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n. pl. Hopi or Ho·pis

a. A Pueblo people occupying a number of mesa-top pueblos on reservation land in northeast Arizona. The Hopi are noted for their dry-farming techniques, rich ceremonial life, and craftsmanship in basketry, pottery, silverwork, and weaving.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi.

[Hopi hópi, peaceable, a Hopi.]

Hopi [ˈhəʊpɪ]

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -pis, -pi a member of a North American Indian people of NE Arizona

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family

[from Hopi Hópi peaceful]

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Noun	1.	Hopi - a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona Pueblo - a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock) Shoshone, Shoshoni - a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
	2.	Hopi - the Shoshonean language spoken by the Hopi Shoshonean, Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language - a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States

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America ceremonial dance kachina kiva language Painted Desert people Pueblo ritual dance ritual dancing Shoshone Shoshonean Shoshonean language Shoshoni Shoshonian Shoshonian language snake dance the States U.S.	On December 16, 1882, troubled by increasing Mormon settlement in the Four Corners region, President Arthur issued an executive order removing about 4,000 acres of land in northern Arizona from the public domain, and making it a reservation for "the Moqui [Hopi] Indians and other Indians that the President should decide to settle thereon. Clear skies in the desert by Clarke, Chris / Earth Island Journal Moqui Lund of Glendale remembers her husband running downstairs to check on their two daughters. EMOTIONAL AFTERSHOCKS STARK MEMORIES BRING TEARS, CHILLS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) For another example of an American Indian perspective on communal ownership of land, see the petition of the Moqui women to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as reproduced in Joan West & Wynell Burroughs Schamel, Those Waterless Sandy Valleys: Petition of the Moqui Women, 5 MAGAZINE OF HISTORY 46 (1991). Protecting ecological integrity within the balancing function of ... by Frazier, Terry W. / Environmental Law	mopani worm mopboard mope mope about or around mope around Mope-eyed moped Mopeful mopes Mopish Moplah mopoke mopper moppet mopping mopping up mopping-up mopping-up operations Mopsey Mopsical Mopstick mopus mopy Moquelumnan moquette Moqui MOR Mor. mora Moraceae moraceous Moradabad moraine Morainic moral Moral agent moral certainty moral excellence moral force moral hazard Moral insanity Moral liberty moral majority moral obligation moral philosophy Moral play moral principle Moral Rearmament moral sense moral support moral theology	MOPTA MOPTAR Mopti Mopti, Mali MOPTMA MOPTO MOPTT MOPU mopus MOPVC MOPW MoPWT MoPWTT MoPWUD MOPX mopy mopy mopy mopy MOQ MOQA MOQL Moqrani Uprising of 1871–72 MOQS Moquelumnan moquette moquette Moqui Moqui marble Moqui marbles MOR MOR MOR MOR MOR MOR 693 MOR 693 MOR Galleria MOR Galleria Môr Hafren Môr Hafren Mor Jokai Mór Jókai Mor music television Mor music television MOR SRL Mor Strioch Pian Gar Mor Van Dashorst, Antonis Mor's code Mor's code Mor, Antonis Mor-Barn-Vennlig Initiativ Mor. mor. dict. mor. sol. mora mora mora

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On December 16, 1882, troubled by increasing Mormon settlement in the Four Corners region, President Arthur issued an executive order removing about 4,000 acres of land in northern Arizona from the public domain, and making it a reservation for "the Moqui [Hopi] Indians and other Indians that the President should decide to settle thereon.

Clear skies in the desert by Clarke, Chris / Earth Island Journal

Moqui Lund of Glendale remembers her husband running downstairs to check on their two daughters.

EMOTIONAL AFTERSHOCKS STARK MEMORIES BRING TEARS, CHILLS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

For another example of an American Indian perspective on communal ownership of land, see the petition of the Moqui women to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as reproduced in Joan West & Wynell Burroughs Schamel, Those Waterless Sandy Valleys: Petition of the Moqui Women, 5 MAGAZINE OF HISTORY 46 (1991).

Protecting ecological integrity within the balancing function of ... by Frazier, Terry W. / Environmental Law

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