biography
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Mourning Dove
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originally Humishima or Christine Quintasket
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| (1888–1936)
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| biography:
| Okanogan and Colville writer and activist, born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, USA. A migrant worker in Washington most of her adult life, she wrote one of the few early novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927), as well as Coyote Stories (1933). She also co-founded the Colville Indian Council (1930) and in 1935 became the first woman elected to the Colville Tribal Council. |
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