"indian burial ground"

actually manhattan island must have had a barrel-load of IBGs before it wz built up

kinda lost traction as the past century unspooled, though maybe, witness the fight over the tellico dam in east tennessee, the building of which would have (and eventually did) flooded cherokee burial grounds, but nobody particularly cared, so a serendipitously snorkeling biologist's discovery of a previously unknown species of fish in the little tennessee river (the "snail darter") became the lever for activism and the battle was waged in terms of the endangered species act, rather endangered human culture

even more interesting--what does it mean when the excluded other is a spirit/ghost rather than actual person?

hence my interest

the malevolent ghost haunting gary gilmore's family since the 20s = an evil dead indian, acc.mikal gilmore's shot in the heart

(warnin: don't try this at home foax)

haha in "a view from a hill" the guy digs about for unhallowed bones fallen from a long-gone gallows so he can boil em up to make BINOCULARS that SEE THROUGH TIME

I admit I love that story. :-)

In spite of all the learn'd have said;
I still my old opinion keep,
The posture, that we give the dead,
Points out the soul's eternal sleep.

Not so the ancients of these lands --
The Indian, when from life releas'd
Again is seated with his friends,
And shares gain the joyous feast.

His imag'd birds, and painted bowl,
And ven'son, for a journey dress'd,
Bespeak the nature of the soul,
Activity, that knows no rest.

His bow, for action ready bent,
And arrows, with a head of stone,
Can only mean that life is spent,
And not the finer essence gone.

Thou, stranger, that shalt come this way.
No fraud upon the dead commit --
Observe the swelling turf, and say
They do not lie, but here they sit.

Here still lofty rock remains,
On which the curious eye may trace,
(Now wasted, half, by wearing rains)
The fancies of a older race.

Here still an aged elm aspires,
Beneath whose far -- projecting shade
(And which the shepherd still admires
The children of the forest play'd!

There oft a restless Indian queen
(Pale Shebah, with her braided hair)
And many a barbarous form is seen
To chide the man that lingers there.

By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews,
In habit for the chase array'd,
The hunter still the deer pursues,
The hunter and the deer, a shade!

And long shall timorous fancy see
The painted chief, and pointed spear,
And reason's self shall bow the knee
To shadows and delusions here.

haha in "a view from a hill" the guy digs about for unhallowed bones fallen from a long-gone gallows so he can boil em up to make BINOCULARS that SEE THROUGH TIME

Well, there's "He".

(SPOILERS!!)

It's not about an indian burial ground per se - the protagonist of the story's walking around NYC, feeling miserable, and meets a like-minded 18th century buff. Same fellow then goes and shows him his TIME TRAVELLING ABILITIES, which he claims his family learned from a tribe of indians which had themselves gotten it from a mix of their own ancient rites and some dutchman's contributiton to same. His great-grandfather (or something) owned the grounds where they did their rituals and managed to get in on it in exchange for letting them stay there. HOWEVER, a week after he learned the stuff, all the indians died, from some poisoned booze that he gave 'em. Anyway, they do a bit of time travellin', first to the past then to the future (which - surprise! surprise! - consists of a wasteland of monstrous, unspeakable horrors.) Then the indian's ghosts show up and melt him into a black liquid substance.

Lovecraft didn't like New York much.

I think he mentions weird Indian stone circles in a couple of stories, but there are no "OMG the house is built on an IBG!!!" moments in the stories.

I assume that the IBG thing is a retrospective guilt about exterminating the indians converted into a fear that they might somehow come from beyond the grave to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. I have read it suggested that old world fears of Trolls, Orcs, Elves etc. are the same kind of thing, only in our case the displacees are the Neanderthals.

AH film = 1979
(poltergeist = 1982)

Poltergeist did not have an IBG! The housing was built on a regular ol' cemetary.

The Shining, however, mentions an IBG!

uh, they are? you mean scandinavians or lapps are "one of the larger immigrant groups"? because there's no way the latter's true.

My greatgrandmother was a Sami and apparently cut quite a figure in her little Minnesota town... kids thought she was an Indian.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/native_truth/message/86

It wasn't clear if any of the movies listed pre-date the 1975 "Amityville Horror" story.

yeah, that's definitely true. never met a sami, so i was a bit confused by your initial post.

(also it claims that poltergeist IS an ibg) (which i thought it was but latebloomer says no)

http://www.worldofschmitt.com/writings/smith/seed_from_the_sepulchre.html

http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=167&category=life

It contains this possibly relevant excerpt:

In a 1956 News article, amateur archaeologist Clair Reynolds told of an elderly Indian who refused to guide him to one of the ancient mound sites, warning: "It is not good that you go to the place of the Yam-Ko-Desh." The Indian insisted that ghosts of the Yam-Ko-Desh, the Ottawa name for the mound builders meaning "the prairie people," still roamed the site.