Examples of such institutions include Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia, Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission in Queensland, Ebenezer Mission in Victoria and Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales.

The trail went to the Whitman Mission near Fort Nez Perces in Washington until 1847 when the Whitmans were killed by Native Americans.

By that time, there were 178 Native Americans living at the Mission.

The former Spanish settlement at Sajavit lies within that area occupied during the late Paleoindian period and continuing on into the present day by the Native American society commonly known as the Juaneño ; the name denotes those people who were ministered by the padres at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

A subsequent site of the Mission dating from 1784 to 1819 is located several hundred yards west of the De La Cruz overpass of the Caltrain track ; moreover, several Native American burial sites have been discovered near this subsequent site.

Restoration efforts by the Native Sons of the Golden West in 1915 and 1950 saved the surviving portion of the Mission wing and converted it into a museum, set in the gracious surroundings of flowers and palm trees.

His choir of Native American boys performed for many visitors, earning the San Juan Bautista Mission the nickname " the Mission of Music.

Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia (" sub-mission ") of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium.

Chief Red Blood Anthony Morales, Chairman & tribal leader of the of the Gabrieleño / Tongva of the San Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians, is honored for his continuous hard work and efforts to preserve Native American culture, sacred sites, and ensuring equal treatment for all Native Americans.

Kapalga Native Industrial Mission was established near the South Alligator River in 1899, but lasted only four years.

Near the city limits of Coachella are three casinos on Indian reservations: Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino, Spotlight 29 Casino, and Augustine Casino, which are owned and operated by Native American tribes — the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians, and Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, respectively.

The city has a high proportion of Native Americans, most of whom are members of the Cahuilla tribe in proximity to the Agua Caliente Cahuilla tribal board in Palm Springs ( see also Mission Creek Indian Reservation ).

The racial makeup of Mission Canyon was 2, 193 ( 92. 1 %) White, 14 ( 0. 6 %) African American, 17 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 40 ( 1. 7 %) Asian, 11 ( 0. 5 %) Pacific Islander, 35 ( 1. 5 %) from other races, and 71 ( 3. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Mission Hills was 2, 689 ( 75. 2 %) White, 91 ( 2. 5 %) African American, 74 ( 2. 1 %) Native American, 125 ( 3. 5 %) Asian, 9 ( 0. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 386 ( 10. 8 %) from other races, and 202 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

The Cadle Mission, a mission of the Episcopal Church for the Native Americans, was located in the village in the nineteenth century.

Dwight Presbyterian Mission was one of the first American missions to the Native Americans established in Arkansas and Indian Territory.

The Native American trail that had existed from the Tongva-Tatavium village called rancheria Santa Susana ( Chatsworth ) to another village, replaced by Mission San Fernando, became the route for missionaries and other Spanish travel up and down California.

* Dights Falls area: meeting place for corroborees, Mission School location, Native Police Corps

Because France had just fallen to the Nazis and Britain had no money to develop the magnetron on a massive scale, Churchill agreed that Sir Henry Tizard should offer the magnetron to the Americans in exchange for their financial and industrial help ( the Tizard Mission ).

* San Francisco Bay Area – also with over one million Hispanics, many of whom are Mexican Americans, both U. S. born and foreign-born ( see also Oakland about 10 – 20 % Hispanic and San Francisco – the Mission District section-the city is 10 – 20 % Latino ).

In June 1944 Peng was part of a team that conferenced with American military personnel that visited Yan ' an as part of the Dixie Mission, briefing the Americans about the military situation in Japanese-occupied China.

Native Americans at Mission San Jose.

Native Americans at Mission San Jose.

In the late 18th century, after the loss of the Tataviam Native Americans – the area's original inhabitants – to Indian Reductions as Mission Indians at the Mission San Fernando immigrants from Spain and Mexico quickly established themselves.

Many of the Native Americans reverted to their former tribal existence and left the Missions while others found they could get room and board and some clothing by working for the large ranches that took over the former Mission lands and livestock.

Other socially conservative organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Mission America, Traditional Values Coalition, Americans for Truth, and Liberty Counsel, opposed the Day of Silence in 2008 by forming a coalition urging parents to keep their kids home on the DOS if students at their school were observing it.

Mission Creek flows through the premises, and includes a rock dam which was constructed in 1806 by Native Americans ( mainly Canaliños ) under the direction of the Spanish padres of the adjacent Mission Santa Barbara.

Once Mission San Luis Rey began to prosper, its existence attracted the attention of large numbers of mountain Native Americans, called the Luiseño by the Spanish.

The Mission was isolated from Mexico and began to do trade with the many different groups of Indians, French and Americans.

Mission San Francisco de la Espada ( also Mission Espada ) was a Roman Catholic mission established by Spain near San Antonio de Bexar in northern New Spain in 1731 to convert local Native Americans to Christianity and solidify Spanish territorial claims in the New World against encroachment from France.

The South African Baptists decided to take over Kafulafuta Mission, while its founder Reverend Phillips remained as superintendent.

Gabon has been a strong proponent of regional stability, and Gabonese armed forces played an important role in the UN Peacekeeping Mission to the Central African Republic ( MINURCA ).

The group recently met their goal of providing clean water to 1, 000 African communities through the organization they founded, Blood: Water Mission, and its 1, 000 Wells Project.

They names of the churches are Iron City Baptist, the Iron City United Methodist, Lighthouse Evangelical Mission, Macedonia Freewill Baptist, Cypress Pond Missionary Baptist, and Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal.

* 1815-American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions open work on Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka through American Ceylon Mission ; Basel Missionary Society organized ; Richmond African Missionary Society founded

* 1836-Plymouth Brethren begin work in Madras, India ; George Müller begins his work with orphans in Bristol, England ; Gossner Mission formed ; Leipzig Mission Society established ; Colonial Missionary Society formed ; The Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed, one of at least six national organizations among African American Baptists whose sole objective was missionary work in Africa.

In 1916, the African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME ) opened Flipper Davis College in the old Tullahassee Mission building.

" The elections were overseen by the United Nations ' peacekeeping mission, United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia, along with a contingent from the Economic Community of West African States.

* In July 1973, Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army ( ZANLA ) cadres captured 292 pupils and staff from the school at St Albert's Mission between Centenary and Mount Darwin in Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) and force-marched them north towards Mozambique, where the ZANLA bases were.

The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ's liberating gospel through word and deed.

In May 2010 Sir Ketumile Masire led an African Union Election Observer Mission to the May 2010 Ethiopia Legislative Elections, and in October 2010 he co-led ( with fellow GLF Member Joe Clark ) a National Democratic Institute pre-election assessment mission in Nigeria, which identified a number of hurdles that could undermine a successful process surrounding the 2011 state and national polls.

The African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. is the oldest continuously existing Baptist organization in the Republic of Malawi, with roots in the earliest mission work of Joseph Booth ( 1892 ) and is a successor to the Providence Baptist Mission ( 1900 ).

* African Union Mission in Sudan ( AMIS )

On 3 April 2009, South African Judge Richard Goldstone was named as the head of the independent United Nations Fact-Finding Mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the Gaza War.

SM West has a student body population that is 10 % African American, which is the highest African American population of any Shawnee Mission high school.

Mohammed's role as Shabaab's military leader, as well as the involvement of other foreign al-Qaeda commanders in Somalia, was confirmed in a report compiled by the African Union Mission for Somalia, and published in The EastAfrican.

It is one of two schisms from the Providence Industrial Mission ( forerunner of the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc .) of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc ..

The International Peace Mission movement is a religious utopian movement started by Father Divine, an African American who claimed to be God.

In 1951 The Peace Mission advocated reparations be paid to the descendants of African slaves.

He was the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic ( MINURCA ).