Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence : Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Bringing Ghosts to Ground -- Part 1: Methodolog ies -- 1. Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer as Indigenous Gothic -- 2. Violence on the Home Front in Robinson Jeffers's "Tamar" -- 3. Hauntings as Histories: Indigenous Ghosts and the Urban Past in Seattle -- Part 2: Historical Encounters -- 4. The Anatomy of a Haunting: Black Hawk's Body and the Fabric of History -- 5. The Baldoon Mysteries -- 6. Haunting Remains: Educating a New American Citizenry at Indian Hill Cemetery -- Part 3: The Past in the Present -- 7. "We Are Standing in My Ancestor's Longhouse": Learning the Language of Spirits and Ghosts -- 8. Indigenous Hauntings in Settler-Colonial Spaces: The Activism of Indigenous Ancestors in the City of Toronto -- 9. Shape-shifters, Ghosts, and Residual Power: An Examination of Northern Plains Spiritual Beliefs, Location, Objects, and Spiritual Colonialism -- 10. Ancestors, Ethnohistorical Practice, and the Authentication of Native Place and Past -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

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