Mourning Dove's Stories

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