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Mission Indians

Mission Indians is the plural of Mission Indian.

Meaning of Mission Indian

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...

Questions about Mission Indians

What is Mission Indians the plural of?
Mission Indians is the plural of Mission Indian.

Words near Mission Indians in the dictionary

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

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