What about the native American way I like the idea of that a platform made of branches lay the body on the top and set on fire if that is truly Native American
It wasn't common for Indigenous people to cremate their dead, although a few southern bands did. Most covered their dead with many layers of animal skins and or buffalo robes and placed them on platforms to keep them from being eaten by wolves and bears.
Burial customs varied widely from tribe to tribe. Indians disposed of their dead in a variety of ways.
Some Arctic tribes, for example, simply left their dead on the frozen ground for wild animals to devour, others built stone cairns in summer. The ancient mound-building Hopewell societies of the Upper Midwest, by contrast, placed the dead in lavishly furnished tombs. Southeastern tribes practiced secondary bone burial. They dug up their corpses, cleansed the bones, and then reburied them. The Northeast Iroquois, before they formed the Five Nations Confederation in the seventeenth century, saved skeletons of the deceased for a final mass burial that included furs and ornaments for the dead spirits' use in the afterlife. Northwest coastal tribes put their dead in mortuary cabins or canoes fastened to poles. Further south, California tribes practiced cremation. In western mountain areas tribes often deposited their dead in caves or fissures in the rocks. Nomadic tribes in the Great Plains region either buried their dead, if the ground was soft, or left them on tree platforms or on scaffolds. Central and South Atlantic tribes
embalmed and mummified their dead. But during outbreaks of
smallpox or other diseases leading to the sudden deaths of many tribe members, survivors hurriedly cast the corpses into a mass grave or threw them into a river.
Some Southwestern tribes, especially the
Apache and Navajo, feared the ghosts of the deceased who were believed to represent the living. The nomadic Apache buried corpses swiftly and burned the deceased's house and possessions.
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