Mourning Dove's Stories
Clifford E. Trafzer is Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published many books and articles, including Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0934931054
ISBN13:9780934931052
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:San Diego State University Press
Length:118 Pages
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American Indian Oral History
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Humishuma, Mourning Dove, was the pen name for Christine Quintasket, an American Indian of some note since she is considered to be the first native woman ever to have written a novel. Mourning Dove lived during the transitional period of American Indian history when the traditional life of freedom gave way to the reservation system....This volume is a product of Mourning Dove's intense interest in her people's past. The stories offered here were stored in the attic of Geraldine and Dean Guiefor nearly fifty years before they were shared with Richard Scheuerman. -- except from book's preface
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