{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/ca/scc/scc14.htm","path":"nam/ca/scc/scc14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/scc/scc14.htm","text":"A person was dying. Then some people said: \"Let it be that he lies outside for three days. Then he will get up and be a person again.\" Now there was one newly married man, the meadow-lark. He did not like the dead person lying near his house because the body smelled. He said: \"We will take the dead one away and burn him.\" So the people were persuaded. They built a pile of wood, laid the body on it, and burned it. Thus the people of old times did, and so people die now and do not come back.","title":"12.--Gashowu Yokuts. The Origin Of Death.","type":"page"}