Mourning Dove (born Humishima or Christine Quintasket) (1888–1936)

Okanogan/Colville writer and activist. A migrant worker in Washington most of her adult life, she wrote one of the few early novels by an American Indian woman, Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927), as well as Coyote Stories (1933). She also cofounded the Colville Indian Council (1930) and in 1935 became the first woman elected to the Colville Tribal Council. She was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho.