The Aliklik lived in Antelope Valley, and ate acorns, yucca, juniper and chia, and they hunted small game. and used tolache and tobacco.

The Kitanemuk are part of the peoples who speak Takic, which include the Cahuilla, Cupeno, Serrano and Vanyume, the Luiseno, the Juaneno, the Gabrieleno and the Fernandeno. Their home is the southern Sierra Foothills, and they gathered acorns and pine nuts, and hunted deer and antelope. The Kitanemuk got wooden vessels with abalone shell inlay from the Chumash. (Davis: 1966)

The Serrano lived in The San Bernardino Mountains and San Bernadino Valley, and the desert tableland to the north, bounded by the Tehachapi Range. Their name means "mountaineers".

The Vanyume lived on the Mohave River east of the Mohave Sink. Their staples were mesquite and screwbean, and they snared rabbit and otter, and made the skins into blankets, according to Kroeber.

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