Origin of Grasshoppers and Ants During the emergence from , the grasshoppers journeyed with man to reach the surface and spread in all directions. But in the travel to the surface, the mother of the grasshoppers was stepped on by the men, which stopped the rest of her children from reaching the surface. Those already above ground spread in all directions, just as the first tribes of man had done. From then on the Choctaw called the creatures ("mother dead").
Origin of Grasshoppers and Ants During the emergence from , the grasshoppers journeyed with man to reach the surface and spread in all directions. But in the travel to the surface the mother of the grasshoppers was stepped on by the men which stopped the rest of her children from reaching the surface. Those already above ground spread in all directions just as the first tribes of man had done. From then on the Choctaw called the creatures ("mother dead").