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Mourning Dove

 
Works: Works by Mourning Dove
(Hum-ishu-ma, 1885-1936)

1927Cogewea the Half-Blood. One of the first novels by a Native American woman, the book explores the challenges faced by a mixed-race woman on the Flathead Reservation of Montana at the turn of the century as she tries to live in both the white and the Indian worlds. Mourning Dove was born Christal Quintasket in Idaho, with an Irish father and a mother who was a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Her other major work is Coyote Stories (1933).

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