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Mourning Dove [a] (born Christine Quintasket [1]) or Humishuma [4] was a Native American (Okanogan , Arrow Lakes , and Colville) author best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range and her 1933 work Coyote Stories.
Mourning Dove was accused by one US Indian agent of falsely claiming that she had written the novel. [23] After receiving assurances McWhorter wrote to him strongly supporting Mourning Dove's authorship, the agent recanted his statements. [13] Over her lifetime, Mourning Dove gained both notoriety and respect as an author.
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Others began to write fiction, for example, Mourning Dove's novel Cogewea and D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded. Other novelists include John Joseph Mathews and John Milton Oskison. Perhaps the best known Native American work from this period is Green Grow the Lilacs, a play by Cherokee author Lynn Riggs that became the basis for the musical ...
The Philokalia (Ancient Greek: φιλοκαλία, lit. 'love of the beautiful', from φιλία philia "love" and κάλλος kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" [1] of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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He obliged and dove down into the water, all the way to the bottom of the sea, where he picked up a bit of mud and brought it to the surface. Once above the water, the mud spread out in all directions and became an island. [24] The Great Spirit secured the island by attaching cords to it and tying it to the vault in the sky.
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