Word: salish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took power, thousands of cemeteries have been plowed up and sown to crops. The bones, allegedly removed for reburial, were probably ground up for fertilizer...