You See Your Culture Coming Out of the Ground Like a Power

Uncanny Narratives in Time and Space on the Northwest Coast

Bibliographic Data

ID2733401
AuthorsColleen E Boyd (0000-0001-8013-6167, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume56
Issue4
Pages699-731
Publication date2009-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2009-027
OpenAlexW2092920012
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

In 2003, construction began on a graving dock that would bring marine projects to the Olympic Peninsula and provide family-wage jobs. It appeared to be a good fit for the city of Port Angeles, Washington, and its surrounding communities. Shortly after construction began, workers unearthed an approximately 2,700-year-old Coast Salish village and cemetery, claimed by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe as an ancestral site. Significantly, indigenous reports of being haunted by the spirits of their disturbed ancestors and nonnative desires to bury the past and move forward resulted in intercultural conflicts and misunderstandings. Such struggles speak to the contested nature of history and the deeply rooted concerns about the region's socioeconomic future following the decline of natural resource industries

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Narrative · Peninsula · Port (circuit theory) · Power (physics) · Sociology · Tribe · Uncanny · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Ecology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History

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