Mourning Dove (author)
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Mourning Dove is a Native American author best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range, which tells the story of Cogewea, a mixed-blood ranch woman on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The novel is one of the first written by a Native American[1] woman and one of few early Native American works with a female central character. She is also known for Coyote Stories (1933), a collection of Native American folklore (using her term).[2]
Mourning Dove is the English translation of her Indian name, Hum-isha-ma; her English name is Christal Quintasket. She was born in 1888 near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to a Colville mother and a half-Okanagan, half-Irish father. She died on 8 August, 1936.
[edit] References
- ^ It was long thought to be the first, but Sophia Alice Callahan (Creek) had published Wynema, a Child of the Forest in 1891
- ^ see Dexter Fisher's introduction to the U Nebraska edition of Cogewea, p. viii.
[edit] External links
- Mourning Dove entry at the Native American Author's Project
- Bibliography of scholarship on Mourning Dove
[edit] See also
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