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Show - 20- DL: No, they had them flat, you know, laying like that and they put their hands like that and cover, put something over their head. FO: Did they cover them with dirt or mainly with rocks? DL: They covered them with just dirt. FO: Um hum. DL: I done that for them people for a long x^ hile when I was a young man. FO: I see. You helped xtfith the burials.. DL: Um hum. But nox<? adays it's a lot of work, costs a lot of money, FO: It sure does. GT: Yah. FO: And both ways, you're just as dead. DL: Um hum. FO: Were you assigned to do that work by someone? DL: Yah. FO: Medicinemen? DL: No, just the parents of the one that died. FO: Oh, I see. DL: They need help, you knox^. FO: So you would go and help them. DL: Um hum. And sometimes we could take the body with the horse, if the person died has good horse, you know. And we'd take that horse and put that body over the horse and lead him, take him quite a ways from the camp, you know. |
