Crossword-Solution: MOKIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Besides these, there are seven pueblos of the Mokis, near the Little Colorado, occupied by about 3,000 Indians, who have remained undisturbed to the present time, except by Roman Catholic missionaries, and among whom the entire theory of life of the Sedentary Village Indians may yet be obtained.

Some of them, as the Mokis and Lagunas, are organized in gentes, and governed by a council of chiefs, each village being independent and self-governing.

Our information as to Mokis, Sioux, Cheyennes Nez Percés, and indirectly many others, through the pages of Cooper, Parkman, and allied writers, is varied enough, so that our ideas of Indians are pretty well established.

Probably, at no one point in the Southwest was ceramic decoration carried to a higher degree of development than at _A´ wat u i_, yet the Oraibes, by descent the modern representatives of the _A´ wat u i ans_ are the poorest potters and painters among the Mokis.

The Navajos are celebrated for their skill as blanket weavers, and the Mokis are equally skilled in the manufacture of a finer class of the same article, which is much sought after by the surrounding tribes for ornamental purposes in sacred and other dances.