Mission Indian
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A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.
- 1904. Constance Goddard Du Bois. Mythology of the Mission Indians, The Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society, volume XVII, No. LXVI. page 185-8.http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/mmi/index.htm Mythology of the Mission Indians...the mythology of the Luiseño and Diegueño Indians of Southern California.
- 1906. Alfred L. Kroeber, Two Myths of the Mission Indians, Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society, volume XIX, No. LXXV pp. 309-21.http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/tmmi/ 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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- Prior to the American conquest of California 1846-1848, some of the secularized Mission Indian families obtained formal Mexican land grants.2007, Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Website, Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: A Brief History...: