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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.
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xl, 317 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Indian mythology--North America.
Indians of North America--Religion.
Ghosts--North America.
Ghosts in literature.
Indians in literature.
Other Authors:
Boyd, Colleen E.
Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0803211376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803211377 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)679936542
LCCN:
2011001180
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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