Mourning Dove, 1888-1936
Christine Quintasket or Hum-ishu-ma, better known by her author name Mourning Dove, was a Native American (Okanogan (Syilx), Arrow Lakes (Sinixt), and Colville) author 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.
She was born Christine Quintasket circa 1884 or at some time between 1884 and 1888 near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.. Quintasket was a surname her father had taken from his stepfather. She also was given an indigenous name, Hum-Ishu-Ma.
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