Another method, embracing both burial and cremation, has been practiced by the Pitt River or achomawi Indians of California, who Bury the body in the ground in a standing position, the shoulders nearly even with the ground.
"A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204"
H. C. Yarrow