Fine Art Photo Prints
The Tatavium lived in the vicinity of Vasquez Rocks (western San Gabriel mountains) and were formerly thought to have been a branch of the Serrano even though they spoke a different Shoshonean language. Actually they were a branch of the Fernandeno. Tatavium means "People facing the Sun".
Antelope Valley
"Aliklik" was a name given and meant to insult the Tatavium. The Tatavium took the area over about 950 AD and to their neighbors the language of the new people sounded like stammering with clicking noises.