Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the
Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the
author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be
published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted
as Bison Books. Jay Miller, formerly assistant director and editor at
the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian,
Newberry Library, Chicago, now is an independent scholar and writer in
Seattle. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native
North America.