Táxliswet

The Táxliswet are the Cahuilla of inland southern California, who call themselves taxliswet, 'a person', while Iviatim denotes those who speak their Ivilyuat language. Their territory stretched from the San Bernardino Mountains to the Colorado Desert, and their oldest stories remember Lake Cahuilla, which dried up before 1700.

Takic speakers of the Uto-Aztecan family, they lived in small clan villages, harvesting acorns, mesquite and the fruit of the California fan palm, whose leaves they wove into baskets and sandals. Their first European meeting came in 1774, when Juan Bautista de Anza crossed their country seeking a route to Monterey; they otherwise had little direct contact with the Spanish missions before the nineteenth century.