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Apparently many native Americans cremate(d) their deceased -



blog.sevenponds.com/cultural-perspectives/tolkotin-native-americans-rituals-for-the-end-of-life-and-burial

Tolkotin Native Americans: Rituals for the End of Life and Burial

Why Native American traditions for death and dying captivated early explorers.



North America, circa 1831: Irishman Ross Cox had long braved his emigration to America and finally published Adventures on the Columbia River.

The early explorer’s book is integral to our understanding of the era, and not just because it informs us on the infamous American Fur Company in which he was a prominent player. Throughout his observations of the “mysterious Northwest,” Cox’s book highlights the Tolkotin Native Americans of present-day Oregon, expressing his fascination in their rituals for the end of life and burial.



The Tolkotin Native Americans saw the relationship between life and death as a cyclical communion with nature, and their creation myths – a concept that astounded early explorers. “The ceremonies attending the dead are very singular and quite peculiar to this tribe,” writes Cox about Native American perceptions of death and dying. Cox was also unaware of what anthropologists and historians know today: that the Native cremation burials he observed were one of the most pervasive traditions amongst the otherwise diverse Native American tribes of the Northwest.



Although Cox’s understanding of Tolkotin traditions is affected an ethnocentrism common to settlers of the Northwest, we can sift through his biases to find a vivid picture of their cremation burial process:



“The [loved one who has passed] is kept nine days laid out in [the family’s] lodge and on the tenth it is buried. During the nine days the [loved one] is laid out, the widow of the deceased is obliged to sleep along side it from sunset to sunrise, and from this custom there is no relaxation even during the hottest days of summer!



A rising ground is selected [for the cremation], on which are laid a number of sticks, about seven feet long, of cypress, neatly split. Invitations are dispatched to the natives, requesting their attendance. When the preparations are perfected, the [loved one] is placed on the pile, which is ignited…during the process, the bystanders appear to be in a high state of merriment.”



Finally, the loved one is buried and tended to by their surviving spouse, so as to “keep [it] free from weeds.”

Anyway, native American heathens are Hindoos' spiritual kindred. All hyper heathens are.



The link appears to be a western site advocating natural cremation as an environmentally-friendly practice. Yet aliens (christoterrorists) are always trying to ban cremation by Hindoos in India under excuses that it "pollutes the environment".