Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography

Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography - Paperback

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Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography

Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography - Paperback

by Mourning Dove
$17.95
Sale price  $17.95 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Jay Miller (Editor), Mourning Dove (Author)

Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted as Bison Books. Jay Miller, formerly assistant director and editor at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago, now is an independent scholar and writer in Seattle. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native North America.

Author Biography

Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted as Bison Books. Jay Miller, formerly assistant director and editor at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago, now is an independent scholar and writer in Seattle. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native North America.

Number of Pages: 267
Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.47 x 5.27 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 01, 1994
ISBN9780803282070
Author Mourning Dove
PublisherBison Books
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages267
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove, the author of Cogewea, was an Okanogan of eastern Washington. She lived as a migrant farmworker and, after ten-hour days in the hop fields and apple orchards, faithfully returned to the battered typewriter in her tent. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, a respected and sympathetic student of Indian lore and history, encouraged her in her ambition to be a writer; finally she made her book a record of the folklore of the Okanogan tribe, a plea for the welfare of the half-blood, and above all the testimony to her own singleminded dedication.

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