Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories (Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures)
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2026
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- Title
- Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories (Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures)
- Author
- Thompson, Coquelle
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1496246152
- ISBN 13
- 9781496246158
Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories comprises forty-five narratives dictated by Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian residing on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, during the fall of 1935. Elizabeth D. Jacobs transcribed the stories from Thompson and selected some for intended publication. In addition to those Jacobs chose, William R. Seaburg combed through Thompson's field notebooks and chose a handful of additional stories, as well as several cognate texts Thompson told to Smithsonian Institution linguist John Peabody Harrington in 1942 and cognates from other Athabaskan and from non-Athabaskan groups in the region.
This companion volume to Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian, which collected Thompson's myths and folktales, focuses on Thompson's semi-historical tales, narratives of historical events, ethnographic texts, and personal and family stories.
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About the Author
Jay Miller has a lifelong involvement with cultures and languages of Native communities in the four directions, with a fondness for the Northwest and earthen mounds. He has published works on Tsmshyan, Lushootseed, Salishan, and Mvskogee with the University of Nebraska Press as well as academic articles, book chapters, and dozens of edited tribal volumes. Laurel B. Sercombe is a retired sound archivist, having worked for the Ethnomusicology program at the University of Washington for more than thirty years. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology in 2001. Her publications include "Native Seattle in the Concert Hall: An Ethnography of Two Symphonies" (2016) and "History of Lushootseed Language Instruction" (2021). Susanne J. Young received her PhD in linguistics in 1983, specializing in comparative historical linguistics with an emphasis on Indo-European languages and the Indo-European verb system in particular. The title of her dissertation was "The Medio-Passive R-Forms in Indo-European." She worked in the Department of History at the University of Washington for twenty-nine years, retiring as the director of academic services in 2013.
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