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Meaning of Mission Indian | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.

Examples

“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.”

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

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

mission kill mission manzanita mission mix mission mixture Mission olive Mission Ridge