Mourning Dove : a Salishan autobiography

Mourning Dove 1888-1936 (Author). Miller, Jay, 1947- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0803282079
ISBN: 9780803282070
Physical Description: xxxix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [Pt.] I : A Women's world -- My life -- Spiritual training -- Courtship and marriage -- The Dutiful wife -- Baby care -- Charming affections -- Widowhood -- [Pt.] II : Seasonal activities -- The Fishery at Kettle Falls -- Fall hunting -- Winter dancing -- The Seancing rite -- The Sweatlodge diety -- [Pt.] III : Okanogan history -- Tribal backgrounds -- The Big snow and flood rampage of 1892-1893 -- Early farming -- The Invasions of miners and settlers -- Appendix : The Red Cross and the Okanogans -- Notes -- Glossary of Colville-Okanogan terms -- References -- Index.