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Native American Burial Rituals. Many Native Americans believe that birth life and death are the elements of something much largerand endless life cycle. Some Native Americans discarded personal ornaments or blacked their faces to honor the dead. Others gashed their arms and legs to express their grief. Native American Burial and Funeral Customs Native American funeral traditions and rituals differed from tribe to tribe.
Family members wash and dress the body and place it in a shroud or wooden casket. In the pre-colonial days different tribes maintained. Tribes in the Mississippi River area built chambered mounds. Others gashed their arms and legs to express their grief. Other death rituals include painting a dead persons face red the colour of life or washing the body with yucca before burial. California tribes engaged in wailing staged long funeral ceremonies and held an anniversary mourning ritual after one or two years.
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A few beliefs are held in common. Sometimes feathers are tied around the head of the dead tribe member as a form of prayer. Funerals are part of our lives. They make all the arrangements including transporting the body and utilize green burial techniques. The body would be crushed to a pulp with clubs and put in a suitcase box. Among many tribes mourners especially widows cut their hair.