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Title Phantom past, Indigenous presence : Native ghosts in North American culture and history / edited and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 317 pages) : illustrations, map
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: Bringing ghosts to ground / Colleen Boyd and Coll Thruch -- Part 1, Methodologies. Sherman Alexie's Indian killer as Indigenous gothic / Michelle Burnham -- Violence on the home front in Robinson Jeffers's "Tamar" / Geneva M. Gano -- Hauntings as histories: Indigenous ghosts and the urban past in Seattle / Coll Thrush -- Part 2, Historical encounters. The anatomy of a haunting: Black Hawk's body and the fabric of history / Adam John Waterman -- The baldoon mysteries / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall -- Haunting remains: educating a new American citizenry at Indian Hill Cemetery / Sarah Schneider Kavanagh -- Part 3, The past in the present. "We are standing in my ancestor's longhouse": learning the language of spirits and ghosts / Colleen E. Boyd -- Indigenous hauntings in settler-colonial spaces: the activism of Indigenous ancestors in the city of Toronto / Victoria Freeman -- Shape-shifters, ghosts, and residual power: an examination of Northern Plains spiritual beliefs, location, objects, and spiritual colonialism / Cynthia Landrum -- Ancestors, ethnohistorical practice, and the authentication of native place and past / C. Jill Grady
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indian mythology -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Ghosts -- North America
Ghosts in literature.
Indians in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ghosts
Ghosts in literature
Indian mythology
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Religion
Iwi taketake.
North America
Form Electronic book
Author Boyd, Colleen E.
Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970-
LC no. 2011001180
ISBN 9780803236189
0803236182
9781283146432
1283146436
9786613146434
6613146439
Other Titles Native ghosts in North American culture and history