Mourning Dove (author)
Mourning Dove (born Christine Quintasket) or Humishuma was a Native American (Okanogan (Syilx), Arrow Lakes (Sinixt), and Colville) author, activist, and one of the first Native American women to publish a novel 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.