Mission Indians
Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
These tribes were associated with the following Missions, Asisténcias, and Estáncias:
In Northern California, specific tribes are associated geographically with certain missions.[8]
Acjachemen
Laguna Band of Mission Indians of the Laguna Reservation
Las Palmas Band (unrecognized) of Cahuilla.
San Cayetano Band (unrecognized) of Cahuilla.
(Serrano)
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
[11] (Chemehuevi with some Cahuilla and Luiseño descent)[12]
Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians
Current mission Indian tribes include the following in Southern California:
Current Mission Indian tribes north of the present day ones listed above, in the Los Angeles Basin, Central Coast, Salinas Valley, Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay Areas, also were identified with the local Mission of their Indian Reductions in those regions.
Moravian Indians
Praying Indians
Indian Reductions
California Genocide
California mission clash of cultures
Population of Native California
Native American history of California
Native Americans in California
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
American Indian reservations in California
Genízaros
Indigenous peoples of California
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Luiseño
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Shipek, Florence (1988). Pushed into the Rocks: Southern California Indian Land Tenure 1767–1986. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Sutton, Imre (1964). Land Tenure and Changing Occupance on Indian Reservations in Southern California. Ph.D. dissertation in Geography, UCLA.
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Valley, David J. (2003). Jackpot Trail: Indian Gaming in Southern California San Diego: .
Sunbelt Publications
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at the California Frontier Project
Indians of the California Missions: Territories, Affiliations and Descendants
in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library
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in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library