Phantom past, indigenous presence
Subtitle: native ghosts in North American culture and history
By: edited and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780803211377
Subjects: Religion; Indians of North America; Ghosts; Indian mythology; Ghosts in literature; Indians in literature
Other titles: Native ghosts in North American culture and history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bringing ghosts to ground / Colleen Boyd and Coll Thruch; title: Part 1, Methodologies. Sherman Alexie's Indian killer as indigenous gothic / Michelle Burnham; title: Violence on the home front in Robinson Jeffers's "Tamar" / Geneva M. Gano; title: Hauntings as histories: indigenous ghosts and the urban past in Seattle / Coll Thrush; title: Part 2, Historical encounters. The anatomy of a haunting: Black Hawk's body and the fabric of history / Adam John Waterman; title: The baldoon mysteries / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall; title: Haunting remains: educating a new American citizenry at Indian Hill Cemetery / Sarah Schneider Kavanagh; title: 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; title: Indigenous hauntings in settler-colonial spaces: the activism of indigenous ancestors in the city of Toronto / Victoria Freeman; title: Shape-shifters, ghosts, and residual power: an examination of Northern Plains spiritual beliefs, location, objects, and spiritual colonialism / Cynthia Landrum; title: Ancestors, ethnohistorical practice, and the authentication of native place and past / C. Jill Grady.