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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mission Indians (Of California) |
 | | This is the first stock within the mission area which extended beyond the limits of California, the cognate tribes within the state being an outpost of the same great linguistic group which includes the Piute, Ute, Comanche, and Pima of the United States, the Yaqui, Tarumari, and famous Aztec of Mexico. |
 | | The five missions of San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, and its branch mission of San Antonio de Pala, were all in Shoshonean territory, and the great majority of the Mission Indians of to-day are of this stock. |
 | | The confiscation of the missions and the subsequent influx of the gold-hunters doomed the race to extinction. |
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