Spanish Fork Press | 1908-09-03 | Page 5 | Indian Burials

Indian Burials The Indian method of burial was to fasten a corpse upon crosssticks supported sup-ported by poles In the ground or In the boughs of the treetops Hero the air and the elements silently disposed of the lifeless clay until In a year or so but little remained to bear evidence of a tomb perhaps some broken sticks In the top and a fow scattered beads or human bones beneath tho burial place I cannot convolve ot anything more pitifully grewsomo than an Indian burial ground of this type I have seen them in the fall of the year when tho winds wero shaking and swaying tho platforms plat-forms and wringing the leafless trees flaunting the burial rags like signals of distress from the dead and whistling whist-ling through and over tho whitening hones and neglected remains of thoso who had many a time withstood the tempest and storm when tho breath of life stirred within them Army and Navy Life