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Mission Indian

Mission Indian noun: a Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.

Noun

Mission Indian (plural Mission Indians)

  1. 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...
    • 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...

Forms of Mission Indian

pluralMission Indians

Questions about Mission Indian

What does Mission Indian mean?
Mission Indian means a Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.
What part of speech is Mission Indian?
Mission Indian is a noun.
What is the plural of Mission Indian?
The plural of Mission Indian is Mission Indians.

Words near Mission Indian in the dictionary

  1. Mission Hills
  2. mission home
  3. mission homes
  4. mission impossible
  5. mission impossibles
  6. Mission Indian
  7. Mission Indians
  8. mission kill
  9. mission kills
  10. mission manzanita
  11. mission mix

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