Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 17 130 THRILLING MANDAN BUBYING-PLACE. The Indians have, in their different tribes, a varietyof modes of disposing of their dead. Carver saysthe body is attired in the same dress it usually worewhilst living; and other travellers inform us that awarriors arms and his medicine bag are buried withhim, for his use in the world of spirits. It is ascer-tained that, in former times, c
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 17 130 THRILLING MANDAN BUBYING-PLACE. The Indians have, in their different tribes, a varietyof modes of disposing of their dead. Carver saysthe body is attired in the same dress it usually worewhilst living; and other travellers inform us that awarriors arms and his medicine bag are buried withhim, for his use in the world of spirits. It is ascer-tained that, in former times, certain tribes depositedtheir dead in caverns, where many of them have beenfound placed in a sitting posture. The Sioux andMandans (before the extinction of the last-mentionedfribe) erected stages on which they deposited theii
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