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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOHAVE (corrupted from hamok-habi; " three mountains," their native name, with reference to three peaks, which form a prominent feature of their country)

MOHAVE (corrupted from hamok-habi; " three mountains," their native name, with reference to three peaks, which
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FORM (Lat. forma)
form a prominent feature of their
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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)
country) , a tribe of

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North

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AMERICAN

American

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Yuman stock . They have always lived along both

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banks of the

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LOWER

lower

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COLORADO

Colorado

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RIVER

river, in

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ARIZONA (from the Spanish-Indian Arizonac, of unknown meaning,—possibly " few springs,"-the name of an 18th-century mining camp in the Santa Cruz valley, just S. of the present border of Arizona)

Arizona and

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California .

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