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Freneau, at first, seems to be holding a Christian, European burial ritual in superior view to those of the Native Americans. One sees quickly that he does not feel this way, as he suggests that the European formality of burying their dead lying down puts their loved one to rest not only in life, but in all forms. The Native Americans in contrast set their deceased loved ones sitting up, surrounded by implements of life for a journey into an active afterlife. In particular, he mentions an arrowhead as a head of stone (or bone). So Native Americans' "headstones" are arrows, tools of action, and Europeans' headstones are true headstones, heavy objects lying over the deceased. Freneau then showed preference for the mysticism of Native American death over the somber, cold, final, and boring death of the Christian European.
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Philip de Freneau, through his writing, shows a clear interest and fascination with the Native American culture pertaining to life and especially death. The arrowheads that are made of stone and bone that are buried with the deceased are a part of the burial tradition of Native Americans, whereas the headstones that are placed upon Christian graves are less lively and grimmer in attitude. The arrowheads are used to represent the Native Americans' next journey in the afterlife, unlike how the Christians buried their dead facing down so that they could be "put to rest" in all stages of life and death. The Native Americans placed arrowheads, tools of liveliness and action, in the graves of the dead while the Christians placed heavy objects to weigh down their deceased.
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