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autobiography artfully weaves tribal history, Salishan traditions, and a wealth of information of the female life cycle with the story of Quintasket's own childhood and coming of age on the Colville Reservation in Washington.

Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) spent her adult years justifying the ways of Native Americans to whites. Born into Colville Confederated Tribes in 1885 or 1888, she became an ethnographer, orator, pamphleteer, teacher, and novelist, believing that her description and analysis of Native American ways would ensure better treatment for her people.

Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography (American Indian Lives). 0803282079 (ISBN13: 9780803282070).

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. Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography (American Indian Lives).

Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State

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. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native North America

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Mourning Dove : A Salishan Autobiography Anyone interested in American Indian history, culture, religion, and . Anyone interested in American Indian history, culture, religion, and literature should read this informative volume that was produced at such great cost. Mourning Dove's evocation of the complexities of tribal life is irresistible, full of acutely remembered conversations, ceremonies, and events.

A Salishan Autobiography (American Indian Lives). Published February 1, 1994 by Bison Books. Biography, Salishan Indians, Salishan women, Social life and customs, Women, Indian women. Mourning Dove (1888-1936), Mourning Dove, 1888-1936.

Mourning Dove, or Christine Quintasket (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes), was a Native American author in the United States best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea.

Mourning Dove, or Christine Quintasket (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes), was a Native American author in the United States best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range and her 1933 work Coyote Stories. Cogewea was one of the first novels to be written by a Native American woman and to feature a female protagonist.

The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove or the rain dove, and erroneously as the turtle dove, and was once known as the Carolina pigeon or Carolina turtledove. It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. It is also a leading gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in some years) shot annually in the . both for sport and for meat.