Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is locate
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley
The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) is endemic to the Mojave Desert.
A powerful High Desert summer storm sweeps rapidly across the Mojave Desert.
Las Vegas is located in the Mojave Desert.
Mohave people
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The Mohave or Mojave are a Native American people from the Colorado River region of the Mojave Desert in Arizona, California, and Nevada. They are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes, the Fort
Mojave Desert
…desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada, with small portions extending into Arizona and Utah. The Mojave Desert…
Henry Welshe, Mojave tribal chairman of Colorado River Indian Reservation council, c. 1944–46
Mohave ceramic figurine with red slip and earrings, pre-1912, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Chiefs Irataba and Cairook, with Mohave woman, by Balduin Möllhausen (1856)
Mosa, a Mojave girl in 1903, photograph by Edward Curtis