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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Minerva's Children -- 1. Devotions of Affliction: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics -- 2. Periodically Healthy: The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science -- 3. "Massacre of the Innocents": Preventing Smallpox, 1796-1798 -- 4. The Gift of Immunity: Domesticating Techniques -- 5. Republics of Vaccinators: Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency -- 6. Medicine's Malcontents: An Oral History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Paranormal heritage" is contested and should be understood as bridging conceptual divides within dark heritage studies and settler colonial studies. Through historic/fictitious narratives, regional legends, and fortean research this article examines paranormal heritage in the Ohio River Valley, connected to the cryptozoological figure of Mothman, as a continued weaving of settler heritage. Using decolonial and Indigenous theory, it argues that through weaving certain paranormal heritages Indigenous stories and landscapes are usurped, and Indigenous Peoples and Title are erased to 'indigenize' settler populations. Paranormal settler heritages require attention for their role in the logic of elimination and settler moves to innocence.

This article argues for a decolonial response to elite understandings of the Nicaraguan folk playEl Güegüense, highlighting a reading of Indigenous survivance. It examines the work from a perspective that seeks to eliminate the colonial interpretations placed on it by elite writers, thinkers, and nation builders. Through a review of the literature on the play, associated cultural expressions, and personal experiences and understandings, this article evaluates the work as a product of Indigenous culture and mentality rather than a product of mestizaje or other colonial forces. An analysis of the play's dialogue, imagery, and dances is coupled with an Indigenous Chorotega perspective that demonstrates the spiritual significance of the work, in a discussion that seeks to lift the voices of Indigenous peoples of Pacific, North, and Central Nicaragua.