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Indian Burial Ground

Indian Burial Ground.jpg Australian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at PompeiiAustralian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at PompeiiAustralian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at PompeiiAustralian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at PompeiiAustralian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at PompeiiAustralian Natives Burning their DeadThumbnailsDiscovery of loaves of bread baked 1800 years ago, at Pompeii

Among some of our western tribes of Indians the bodies of the dead are placed on scaffoldings of poles several feet high, and there left to the action of the elements. This practice had its origin in the absence of all tools suitable for digging in the earth, and possibly from a vague theory that the body of the deceased should be raised towards the home of the Great Spirit beyond the skies.