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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.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 317 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indian mythology -- North America.
Indian mythology.
North America.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Ghosts -- North America.
Ghosts.
Ghosts in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
Indians in literature.
Indians in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Boyd, Colleen E.
Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970-
Added Title Native ghosts in North American culture and history
Other Form: Print version: Phantom past, indigenous presence. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011 9780803211377 (DLC) 2011001180 (OCoLC)679936542
ISBN 9780803236189 (electronic book)
0803236182 (electronic book)
9780803211377
0803211376