Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mourning Dove

In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:

Mourning Dove

Author (c. 1882 – 1936)
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• After being forced into mission education, Mourning Dove became a writer to raise awareness of Native culture in white America
• Her novel  Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range was one of the first by a Native woman to depict a female protagonist
• Cogewea depicts the challenges of being multiracial and Native American perspectives on religion
• Mourning Dove’s story collection Coyote Stories is a collection of what she termed Native American folklore