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Mourning Dove, author
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(1925-2005)
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This file contains a photocopy of a chapter titled The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove by George Bowering. This chapter is about the writer visiting the grave of Mourning Dove, the first Indigenous woman to write a novel. Her grave is in Omak, Washington and she lived during 1884-1936. This chapter says her family roots are from Okanagan or Merritt B.C, Lakes people of Eastern British Columbia, Colville Reservation, Salish Nation.