Phantom past, Indigenous presence : Native ghosts in North American culture and history / edited and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Boyd, Colleen E., Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011.
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	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
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Table of 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.

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