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Re: Where Owls rove

Posted: December 10, 2009, 08:19:07 PM
by Robert_Moriyama
bottomdweller wrote:Thanks for explaining what this poem was about. I didn't get the whole Bush connection from the poem - and I've even seen a movie about this. Poetry pretty much goes over my head, but now I understand it. Did Native Americans bury their dead above the ground? - how could someone did this great chief up? Thanks again.
"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..."

http://www.deathreference.com/Me-Nu/Nat ... igion.html