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The Indian burial ground trope is frequently used to explain supernatural events and hauntings in American popular culture. [1] The trope gained popularity in the 1980s, making multiple appearances in horror film and television after its debut in The Amityville Horror (1979) .
Maren Longbella of The Seattle Times notes that several 1980s horror films such as Pet Sematary utilize the trope of the "Indian burial ground" to generate scares, often without any Indigenous input. The title of Medina's novel "nods to the theme but signals the intent to make it his own".
The Act requires federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding [1] to return Native American "cultural items" to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and Native Hawaiian organizations. Cultural items include human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of ...
In his digital series "Gone Native" on Comedy Central, Joey Clift (Cowlitz) takes on horror with laughs.
A burial tree or burial scaffold is a tree or simple structure used for supporting corpses or coffins. They were once common among the Balinese , the Naga people , certain Aboriginal Australians , and the Sioux and other North American First Nations .
] References to such things as the "Indian burial ground" or the "medicine man" are commonly used in the horror genre to create a stereotype of "the other" and frighten white audiences. [9] Many of the themes and plots relate to forcefully taking land from aboriginal peoples and the horrific outcomes that follow.
Burial sites have been uncovered at former Indian boarding schools across Canada. But a Lakota activist warns of discoveries to come in the US. Indian boarding schools aren't unique to Canada.
Unprompted, he is told by an old farmer (based on the character Judd Crandall from Pet Sematary) not to dig up Butters' body and re-bury him at the Indian burial ground. Stephen—who had no intention of doing such a thing until the old man put the notion in his head—exhumes Butters' "remains" and reburies the pig carcass at the Indian burial ...