![]() ![]() Our way of life was forever changed beginning in the 1780s, as our people in the Antelope Valley and Mojave Desert regions were decimated by European diseases, forced from their villages, and conscripted into the San Gabriel Mission in order to provide unpaid labor to Spain. Known as the Yuhaaviatam clan, or “People of the Pines,” of the Maara’yam (Serrano), our people held sacred everything the land provided, and we thrived as an independent, self-sustaining community. Long before the arrival of European settlers, our ancestors lived in harmony with the land across the highlands, passes, valleys, and mountains in and between the southwestern Mojave Desert and Inland Empire region in what is now Southern California. For generations, our Tribe has persevered through great change and extreme hardship.
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