Cogewea, the half blood
Subtitle: a depiction of the great Montana cattle range
By: by Hum-ishu-ma, "Mourning Dove," given through Sho-pow-tan ; with notes and biographical sketch by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter.
Contributors: Sho-pow-tan.; McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Okanagan Indians -- Fiction.; Montana -- Fiction.
Description: One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech.
Notes: Reprint of the 1927 ed. published by Four Seas Co., Boston.