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The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in both regional and local folklore and in the national literature of the United States and Canada, as settlers struggled to create a new identity for themselves that melded their European heritage with their new, North American frontier surroundings. In this interdisciplinary volume, Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush bring together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss this North American fascination with "the phantom Native American."
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence explores the importance of ancestral spirits and historic places in Indigenous and settler communities as they relate to territory and history—in particular cultural, political, social, historical, and environmental contexts. From examinations of how individuals reacted to historical cases of "hauntings," to how Native phantoms have functioned in the literature of North Americans, to interdisciplinary studies of how such beliefs and narratives allowed European settlers and Indigenous people to make sense of the legacies of colonialism and conquest, these essays show how the past and the present are intertwined through these stories.
Contents
List of IllustrationsList of Tables Introduction: Bringing Ghosts to GroundColleen Boyd and Coll Thrush Part I. Methodologies1. Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer as Indigenous GothicMichelle Burnham2. Violence on the Home Front in Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar" Geneva M. Gano3. Hauntings as Histories: Aboriginal Ghosts and the Urban Past in Seattle Coll Thrush Part II. Historical Encounters4. The Anatomy of a Haunting: Black Hawk's Body and the Fabric of History Adam John Waterman5. The Baldoon MysterysLisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall6. Haunting Remains: Educating a New American Citizenry at Indian Hill Cemetery Sarah Schneider Kavanagh Part III. The Past in the Present7. "We Are Standing in My Ancestor's Longhouse": Learning the Language of Spirits and GhostsColleen E. Boyd8. Indigenous Hauntings in Settler-Colonial Spaces: The Activism of Indigenous Ancestors in the City of Toronto Victoria Freeman9. Shape-shifters, Ghosts, and Residual Power: An Examination of Northern Plains Spiritual Beliefs, Locations, Objects, and Spiritual Colonialism Cynthia Landrum10. Ancestors, Ethnohistorical Practice, and the Authentication of Native Place and Past C. Jill Grady List of ContributorsIndex
