Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence (English, Colleen E. Boyd | Coll Thrush | Colleen E. Boyd)

About the Book

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 wit…

ISBN: 9780803211377