The feast of the dead, these people literally carried their dead loved one on their back to a ossuary grave. They would chat a particular cry “hai hai,” hai meaning ‘hail,’ but also has a strong message of journey, “especially a journey of souls, and may relate to a root word meaning ‘to take up a path’.” The Huron’s believed that it was the cry of souls emitted from themselves as they took the remains from the burial platforms to the ossuaries. If they did not do this chant during the march they would suffer backache until they die. The Huron’s would also referred the feast of the dead as “the kettle.” Every few years they would move the skeletons, and even bodies of the deceased to a common grave pit. They would clean them, package them up
