ORIGIN OF NAME—MIGRATIONS. 115 
Wailakki are the descendants of a former secession or offshoot from the 
Hupa, who migrated up the Trinity many years ago, and acquired their 
name from the Winttin while they actually were “North People,” though 
they continued to push on southward, displacing the Lassik (a tribe of 
Wintin affinities) within the American period, until they lodged where they 
now are, and the whites came and arrested all further migration. The 
whites became acquainted with the Wintiin first, picked up the name 
“Wailakki” from them, and applied it without any regard to the tribe’s own 
name to the one now bearing it, and it has remained to this day. If the 
whites call a California tribe by a certain name, no matter what, they soon 
learn to use that, whether speaking with whites or with one another. 
The fact that the Wailakki dwell on small ineligible mountain streams 
and the head-waters of one or two swift rivers, without having any one 
really good valley to themselves, shows that they were once interlopers 
who had to wedge themselves in where they could. 
Judge Rosborough, in the letter referred to in a previous chapter, 
advances the theory that there have been three principal lines of migration 
from the north—one along the coast, diverging slightly into the interior; a 
second, up the Willamet River, in Oregon, and over the Kalapuya Mount- 
ains into Scott and Shasta Valleys; and a third, down past the Klamath 
lakes and across the lava regions to Pit River. 
Tam much inclined to accept this theory, and, indeed, before I had 
ever seen Judge Rosborough’s letter, I had come to a similar conclusion in 
regard to the line of southward migration along the coast: but I had not at 
that time any facts in my possession as to the two other migrations, nor 
"even a suspicion that they had ever occurred. I had discovered already 
that along the supposed track of this coast-line of migration there is a series 
of tribes, beginning in Del Norte County, and including the Tolowa, the 
Hupa, and some of their tributaries (not counting in the Humboldt Bay 
tribes), and the Wailakki, who speak languages closely related. It is a 
singular fact that these languages are also closely related to the Navajo, of 
New Mexico, showing that the Navajo must have removed from the Pacific 
coast within comparatively recent times. The following table of numerals 
