The crossing cost them heavily: horses and cattle were lost in the swift current, swept away by water that no orderly crossing could manage in the spring flood season.

The losses were significant.

The bands gathered at Tolo Lake, in the camas prairie country of Idaho, for what would be the last weeks of their traditional life in their homeland.

It was an emotional time.

Not everyone had reconciled themselves to what was happening.

Some of the young men were furious at the loss of horses and land and the humiliation of the forced move.

Some of the elders wept.