Patricia A. Dixon

Patricia Anne Dixon the daughter of Luiseño tribal chair Lorena Lucille Majel Dixon. After attending the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia's parish school, she attended the Academy of the Little Flower in Oceanside after her parents protested against a public school's racist attempts to force her to enroll in home economics courses. After studying at the University of Dayton, She then moved on to San Diego College for Women, where she got her BA and MA degrees in American History and was one of their first Native American graduates;

Dixon is a member of the Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians and would commute to Palomar from the Pauma and Yuima Reservation. In 2000, she made a draft on a still-unpublished children's book on the Luiseño. In 2022, she was among the tribespeople who gave the near-Earth asteroid 594913 ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim its Luiseño-language IAU-approved name.

She is a cousin of Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians tribal chairman Temet Aguilar.