By Harvey Rattey
Harvey told me about the Native Americans’ burials in his home country, the Hi-Line near the Montana-Canada border. In the early days, loved-ones were wrapped in rawhide and placed on scaffolds or in trees. Before Harvey was born, the government decreed that the bodies could no longer be left this way. As a result, the People had to place their loved ones in government-issued wagons and leave them on the prairie. The woman in this scene is putting death moccasins (beaded on the bottom) on her husband’s feet in preparation for his journey.
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