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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 historyin 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 an

Author

and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803211377

Subjects

Folklore, Literary Fiction, History

Updated

2026-03-24