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United States

American Indians

Cemeteries

There are a variety of cultural burial customs among the American Indian tribes. Some of the tribes bury their dead in caves or ravines, walled in with rocks, some in trees, on a scaffolds or buried in or on the ground. The bodies are tightly wrapped in blankets and shawls. Many of the Indian's personal effects are buried with them or deposited on the grave. Relative bring food for a give number of days and leave it for the departed to subsist upon until he or she completes their journey to the "happy hunting grounds."

States

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. see Maryland Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas

Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina

North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Provinces of Canada

• Canada
• Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan
  

Online

• Find a Grave
• Billion Graves
• Native American Cemeteries
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949

Suggested Reading

Bushbnell, David I. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920.WorldCat

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. Your Guide to Cemetery Research. Betterway Books, Cincinnati, OH. 2002. FHL book: 973 V37cs
WorldCat

Eastman, Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman. The Soul of the Indian. www.manga.com.au/%7Eprfbrown/easman6.html

Moulton, Candy. Everyday Life Among the American Indians. Cincinnati:Writer's Digest Books, 2001.

Santillanes, Gary F. Releasing the Spirit: A Lesson in Native American Funeral Rituals. Originally published in The Director 69:10 (October 1997): 32, 34.(The Director: members of the state associations affiliated with the National Funeral Directors Association of the United States, Inc. WorldCat)

Yarrow, H.C. North American Indians Burial Customs. Ogden, UT: Eagles' View Publishing, 1988.

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