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The Chumash people moved from their villages to the Franciscan missions between 1772 and 1817.

Mission San Luis Obispo, established in 1772, was the first mission in Chumash-speaking lands, as well as the northernmost of the five missions ever constructed in those lands.

Next established, in 1782, was Mission San Buenaventura on the Pacific Coast near the mouth of the Santa Clara River.

Mission Santa Barbara, also on the coast, and facing out to the Channel Islands, was established in 1786.

Mission La Purisima Concepcion was founded along the inland route from Santa Barbara north to San Luis Obispo in 1789.

The final Franciscan mission to be constructed in native Chumash territory was Santa Ynez, founded in 1804 on the Santa Ynez River with a seed population of Chumash people from Missions La Purisima and Santa Barbara.

To the southeast, Mission San Fernando, founded in 1798 in the land of Takic Shoshonean speakers, also took in large numbers of Chumash speakers from the middle Santa Clara River valley.

While most of the Chumash people joined one mission or another between 1772 and 1806, a significant portion of the native inhabitants of the Channel Islands did not move to the mainland missions until 1816.