mission indian

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

Prior to the American conquest of California 1846-1848, some of the secularized Mission Indian families obtained formal Mexican land grants.

A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic Missions in Southern 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.