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Moqui

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Moqui: see Hopi Hopi , group of the Pueblo, formerly called Moki, or Moqui. They speak the Hopi language, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock, at all their pueblos except Hano, where the language belongs to the Tanoan branch of the
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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.
Moqui Lund of Glendale remembers her husband running downstairs to check on their two daughters.
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).
 
 
 
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