Cogewea, the Half-Blood Mourning Dove
Cogewea, the Half-Blood Mourning Dove
Novel Book language: English 258 pages Cogewea, the Half-Blood is a novel by Mourning Dove, an early Native American woman writer. It follows Cogewea, a mixed-race woman on a Montana cattle ranch, as she navigates love, heritage, and belonging. It is worth listening to for its pioneering perspective on Native and frontier life.
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Opening of the book TO THE MEMORY OF
MY GREAT GRAND FATHER, SEE-WHELH-KEN, VENERATED CHIEF OF
THE SCHU-AYL-PS; THE SONG OF WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL
FOREVER MINGLE WITH THE MIGHTY ROAR OF THE FALLS OF SWANET*-QAH, AND THE MOURNFUL SOUGHING OF THE MOUNTAIN
PINE: EARTH'S PRIMITIVE NOBLEMAN WHO, IN PEACE WELCOMED
THE COMING OF THE PALE FACE, ONLY TO WITNESS THE SEEDS OF
DESTRUCTION SCATTERED WIDE AMONG HIS OWN ONCE STRONG
AND CONTENTED PEOPLE. TO HIM AND TO THE CROWDED DEATH
HUTS AND BURIAL CAIRNS OF A NATION IS THIS VOLUME MOST ENDEARINGLY DEDICATED BY ONE WHO EVER YEARNS FOR THE UPLIFTING OF HER MOST UNHAPPY RACE.
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