Mission Indian

Mission Indian
a) A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic Missions in Southern California.

Mythology of the Mission Indians...the mythology of the Luiseño and Diegueño Indians of Southern California.

b) A Native American who lived in any one of the Catholic Missions of Alta California.

What are to-day known as the Mission Indians are those Shoshonean and Yuman peoples who occupy the portion of southern California which lies between the principal mountain ranges and the sea.


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