Open AccessIncursion Into Wendigo Territory
Author(s) -
Jackson Eflin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
digital literature review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-904X
DOI - 10.33043/dlr.1.0.9-19
Subject(s) - victory , monster , native american , history , ethnology , geography , art history , political science , law , politics
This article explores modern urban legends that appropriate the idea of the Wendigo, a spiritfrom various Native American tribal legends. These urban legends are informed by a culturalguilt of the dispossession of Native American territories, but the victory of monster over protagonist demonstrates the futility of these attempts to comprehend histories of atrocities.