Takic

The Takic group includes the Tongva of the Los Angeles Basin, the Taaqtam, or Serrano, and the Cahuilla of southern California. Takic speakers moved south from a desert homeland in the western Mojave into coastal California, and held the Southern Channel Islands and the inland deserts and mountains.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo met coastal Takic speakers in 1542. Sustained contact began after 1769, when Spanish missions such as San Gabriel, founded in 1771, were planted in their lands. Resettlement, forced labour and epidemics shattered the mission peoples, who rose in revolts such as Toypurina's in 1785 and the Serrano and Cahuilla rising of 1812. Secularization in the 1830s left most survivors landless.