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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 ...
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The film featured a sympathetic depiction of Native American characters; however, critics describe their portrayal as a "helpless Indian race...forced to recede before the advancing white." [7] Similar depictions included The Indian Runner's Romance (1909) and The Red Man's View (1909). By 1910, one-fifth of American films were Westerns. [8]
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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.