>>4013905They're marked by small concrete slabs too. That graveyard has wooden crosses in the ground above many of the in-ground markers.
It's usually not a caretaker, but families associated with the church.
http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/Article/h-2316>Btw do modern day natives still use those little houses on graves, or they prefer more typical christian symbols and markers?I'm from Alabama. Most people here aren't native. I'm just mixed and identify with my ambiguity. Those native lines that are here are almost entirely Christianized.
Every community is different. Native people aren't all descended from a single tradition, and the Southeastern tribes were considerably different from the Northwestern tribes, no different than the diversity of European cultures.
The little gravehouses you're referring to have more to do with European history than Native history, but because of the "civilization" process of the Southeast, there was large amounts of cultural transfusion.
Contrary to the belief that Alabama is a place of racial purity, it's actually the blender where "Southern" culture emerged from 3 seperate continents.
Only avid students of history are capable of seperating black, white, and native influence from the stock-pot of "The Old Southwest" (which, contrary to its name, actually refers to Alabama and Mississippi)
