Show THE BURIAL OF AN INDIAN UNDER THEIR RITES readers of the tribune of monday probably noticed the recital of an indian burial held in santa clara for fred wall a member of the shiv wits tribe who was killed in an au an to accident and returned to his an under tribal rites returned to his ancestors is the tit fit wording for in all truth the in deans believe the spirit ot of the de ceased really and truly does return to that abode to which a long line of ancestors had gone aforetime our father ancients are deeply vener abed by them they are the source of great wisdom in closer contact than those left upon the mundane and ev 11 sphere and further those left do actually talk with the departed talk to them and feel that they get a re ply not only that but you noticed in report of the ceremony the spirit ot of his possessions were sent along with him that Is his belongings were ceremonially emoni ally killed that Is their spirit released from their form from the tie that binds to this phase of material existence and he has them in spirit form with his spirit on the other side did you notice that the mourners walked forward to the grave and talked with the departed telling him F fred red we did all we could for you we send you all your things we have sent you back to your fathers we can do nothing more tor for you no preachment on doctrine they be lieve and they said to him don t come back that Is an deceased lacking tribal rites would be a wandering ghost to afflict to harass to beseech due formalities of burial but he being properly laid away way and sent to his fathers with every proper rite would never come back in all content he and bis this spir it would remain there we we aln lq chaj ye are keep our jl 11 and jim and j over there you can t both leave it here and take it along do one or the other they live in the spiritual not the materially mercenary we do note with due care that an indian called mustache frank was the keeper of the legends only certain indians have the right to grow a mustache it Is the insignia of an office a calling and that man by intense study holds and keeps the legends in memory transmits them and that man wearing a mustache heralds to all the indian world bis his rank among them his duties and to all who really know his study and achievements just exactly as you know from a collar turned backward the follower of the cloth this man has a spiritual capacity with them an and d it was he was directed the last rites of burial president william R palmer was permitted to talk a little dent palmer got tor for the indians at cedar city a great good and last ing benefit and was admitted into the tribe with the word friend assigned to him as his in dian than name these shivwits Shiv wits a few years ago sent apostle anthony W ivins an embroidered vest with TONY HENO CHEAT worded on it as a mark of their high respect years ago the widow to show her sorrow would have cut oft off a joint of her finger or hacked her limbs deeply with a knife the bair hair of all mourners would have been much cut off the face blackened this sign of mourning kept up for a year it has largely gone with the years and the custom Is seldom seen now the study of the indian reveals a logical stand for his beliefs spirit Is to him the great all this existence in today but a trial a field to tice in a place to graduate from ancone and one should graduate as a a tit fit companion among all the great and glorious of our deeply revered fath or ancients and he in turn then be n birce irce of wisdom and counsel to those still enchained in the prison of things on this side with a long line of heritage the indian lives in many cases a prop erly spiritual life calm thoughtful and ever with an eye on meriting placement in the future too seldom do we giro givie him his dues |