Haunted Prairie: Aboriginal 'Ghosts' and the Spectres of Settlement.

Forced removal of Native Americans; White people; Human settlements; Prairies; Land settlement; Indigenous peoples; Land use; Forced migration; Indigenous peoples of the Americas; Europeans; Ghosts; Colonies; Imperialism; History

This article focuses on issues related to Native ghosts of prairies. According to author A. L. Burt, the omnipresence of Native ghosts on the prairies is a natural consequence of the historic and prehistoric omnipresence of the Indians themselves. The fact that they no longer inhabit some of these "haunts" is what effectively turns them into ghosts, and Burt is very blunt about the mechanism that has effected this removal of Native people from their country: it has been 'taken over' by European settlers.