Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mission indian

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English

Syllables: mis-sion in-di-an
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

Mission Indians (plural)

Questions

What does mission indian mean?: A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.

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