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The whites can not authentically chronicle our habits and customs. They can hardly get at the truth.... It is practically impossible for an alien to get at our correct legendary lore.

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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Born: 1888

Died: August 8, 1936 (aged 48)

Bio: Mourning Dove or Christal Quintasket was a Native American author 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.

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