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Cogewea, The Half Blood - A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (Paperback)
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Cogewea, The Half Blood - A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (Paperback)
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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. Mourning Dove, the author of Cogewea, was
an Okanogan of eastern Washington. She lived as a migrant
farmworker and, after ten-hour days in the hop fields and apple
orchards, faithfully returned to the battered typewriter in her
tent. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, a respected and sympathetic
student of Indian lore and history, encouraged her in her ambition
to be a writer; finally she made her book a record of the folklore
of the Okanogan tribe, a plea for the welfare of the half-blood,
and above all the testimony to her own singleminded dedication.
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