Table of 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

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An interdisciplinary examination of the role of Native ghosts in North American culture.

About the Author

Colleen E. Boyd is an associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University. Her articles have appeared in Ethnohistory, Journal of Northwest Anthropology, and in edited volumes. Coll Thrush is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. Contributors: Colleen E. Boyd, Michelle Burnham, Victoria Freeman, Geneva M. Gano, C. Jill Grady, Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, Cynthia Landrum, Allan K. McDougall, Coll Thrush, Lisa Philips Valentine, and Adam John Waterman.