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Title Phantom past, indigenous presence [electronic resource] : native ghosts in North American culture and history / edited and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush.

Imprint Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Description xl, 317 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : bringing ghosts to ground / Colleen Boyd and Coll Thrush -- 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 -- 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 -- "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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indian mythology -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Ghosts -- North America.
Ghosts in literature.
Indians in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Boyd, Colleen E.
Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780803211377 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803236189 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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