Our tribe would often become weary with travel and become very
dissatisfied and would quarrel much among themselves. The Talth would
stop after hearing so much grumbling and build a lodge where their
members would hold a meeting and offer up worship to God, that He would
guide them aright, endow them with power to bring peace among their
people, comfort them in their wants and give them food. After the lodge
meeting and prayer the Talth would command with the rod of Walth-pay
food for their people. The food came to them in the form of acorn dough
out of which they made bread or pop-saw. The Indians would never see
pop-saw falling to the ground, but they would find it where the Talth
told them to look, and each one would be compelled to gather up their
own, or they would go hungry. As long as they remained camped in the
same place the pop-saw would come to them but when they would break
up camp and travel on the pop-saw would cease to come and the tribe
would grow very hungry and begin to quarrel again. The Talth would
stop after days of fatigue and hunger, and build another lodge where
their members would worship at the sacred shrine. After the worship
food would come again in the form of the acorn dough, commanded with
rod of Walth-pay. Sometimes the Talth would leave the camps for several
days, during which time the people would become very restless and
discontented and some of the people would try to perform the duties
of the Talth in their absence, and some of them would pray to the
sun, some to the stars and other idols. The Talth would be very much
humiliated upon their return to find their people so corrupt in their
worship, and it would take much faithful work to assure peace and order
among them again. The Talth would plant the herb, Walth-pay at their
stopping places during their travels, and it would readily take root
and grow, at almost every stopping place some of our people were left
and God would give them a language; they would inhabit the locality
permanently and branch out to other localities, while our part of the
people traveled on until they reached their final earthly home on the
Klamath river, which we call Health-kick-wer-roy, and here we found the
white race, (Wa-gas) which will be told of in another chapter. Thus
we traveled on down a great continent, leaving behind at our stopping
places, a portion of our people, which were given different languages.
Thus were our languages confounded among the tribes of America, and our
tribes became numerous, being scattered over the land of the midnight
sun of perpetual ice and snow, over the continent of North America to
the equator and regions of perpetual sunshine; and beyond the equator
over the continent of South America to its farthermost southern
borders, where we merge into the regions of ice and snow again, our
tribes have been scattered. Over this great land we are all one people,
however some of our tribes were far superior to others. We know not how
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