A little bit out of town there's a small Native American Reservation with just a couple thousand members in it. A large majority of my relatives reside there. They have a blend of Christianity and Native American history. It was one of the newer found tribes that derived from larger previous tribes (I believe the Sioux had some sort of influence). I went to my first funeral/cremation last year.... on the reservation and we had to go to church (lucky I didn't burn to death..) afterwards we went to the cry house but that last until sunrise.... so you stay there with the body until then... they say tobacco helps the spirit to ascend to the great beyond or afterlife, so everyone would smoke tobacco.... by around four they put the body in the box and put all his belongings there.... all of my uncle's belongings were burned with him, it's way of saying this person's life no longer exists....
I am happy to be a diverse mess really it's great being able to explore many cultures out there that I'm racially apart of.
Please feel free to share your cultural background or ethnicity
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