{"product_id":"ghosts-dance-in-an-empty-house-and-other-stories-hardcover-1","title":"Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCoquelle Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam R. Seaburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam R. Seaburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis companion volume to \u003ci\u003ePitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoquelle Thompson \u003c\/b\u003e(ca. 1848-1946) was an accomplished storyteller who lived through the Rogue River Wars of 1855-56. His tribal community was evicted from its homeland and resettled with other Athabaskan groups on the Siletz Reservation, where he lived for ninety years. \u003cb\u003eWilliam R. Seaburg\u003c\/b\u003e (1947-2022) was a professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He was the editor of \u003ci\u003ePitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian \u003c\/i\u003e(Nebraska, 2007) and the editor and annotator of \u003ci\u003eThe Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e by Elizabeth D. Jacobs. \u003cb\u003eElizabeth D. Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e (1903-83) was a therapist and ethnographer who conducted fieldwork among the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Miller\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eLaurel B. Sercombe\u003c\/b\u003e 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). \u003cb\u003eSusanne J. Young\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53427015811379,"sku":"9781496246158","price":124.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/n5Iot2PBrL9781496246158_0dc13c1c-543c-49d4-b3d0-b1b3d6f69a6a.webp?v=1780562616","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/ghosts-dance-in-an-empty-house-and-other-stories-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}