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Mission Indians
Mission Indians
is a term for many
indigenous peoples of California
, primarily living in
coastal plains
, adjacent inland valleys and mountains, and on the
Channel lands
in central and southern
California
,
United States
. The tribes had established comparatively peaceful cultures varying from 250 to 8,000 years before Spanish contact. These resident
indigenous peoples of the Americas
were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at twenty-one Franciscan
Spanish missions in California
, and the
Asisténcias
and
Estáncias
as they were established between 1796 and 1823 in the
Las Californias
Province of the
Viceroyalty of New Spain
.
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