The Rumsen, also spelled Rumsien, lived from the Pájaro River to Point Sur and along the lower Pájaro, Salinas, Sur and Carmel Rivers. Their villages near the mission included Tucutnut and Achasta.
At Point Lobos there are traces of a long-term village called Ichxenta, with 19 midden sites and five with mortar holes used to grind acorns and seeds, and evidence people lived there for about 2,500 years.
Most Ohlone people near the missions died in the late 1700s and early 1800s from disease, overwork and malnutrition. Today descendants belong to groups such as the Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation, and Rumsen is one of three Ohlone languages seeing revival.