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Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, one of the first published Native American women authors. Mourning dove imagery also turns up in contemporary American and Canadian poetry in the work of poets as diverse as Robert Bly, Jared Carter, [50] Lorine Niedecker, [51] and Charles Wright. [52]
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.
Eastern mourning dove (state symbol of peace) Zenaida macroura carolinensis: 1971 [73] States with the same state bird.
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.
The mourning collared dove is a largish, stocky pigeon, up to 31 cm in length. Its back, wings and tail are pale brown. The head is grey and the underparts are pink, shading to pale grey on the belly. There is a black hind neck patch edged with white. The legs and a patch of bare skin around the eye are red.
Pigeon is a French word that derives from the Latin pīpiō, for a ' peeping ' chick, [6] while dove is an ultimately Germanic word, possibly referring to the bird's diving flight. [7] The English dialectal word culver appears to derive from Latin columba. [6] A group of doves has sometimes been called a "dule", taken from the French word deuil ...
Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) People. Harry Turtledove (born 1949), historian and author who writes historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels;
DNA sequence analysis [6] confirms that the white-winged and West Peruvian doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as distinct species. Relationships among the other species are quite unequivocal, too; what is not quite clear is whether the Galapagos dove is most closely related to the zenaida dove (as tentatively indicated by morphology) or to the eared and mourning doves ...