A history of Ojai,
since 1921

Ojai sits on what used to be a territory of the Chumash, a Native American people who inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, but what is now Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south and the Channel Islands. Before the arrival of European settlers, at least 10,000 Chumash people lived in over 150 independent villages, speaking variations of the same language. Starting in 1769, Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived to colonize the California coast, Christianize the native population, found military presidios and relocate Chumash people from their villages into Spanish missions.

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