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have correct intuitions about the future, which they attribute to guidance from their ancestors. For example, Jim is said to know that
Cogewea will win the horse race because his "spirit power" told him. Fisher argues that Mourning Dove feared was that a European-American audience would ridicule such Okanagan concepts.
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When the book was first published, audiences found the novel's style awkward. Mourning Dove was accused by one US Indian agent of falsely claiming that she written the novel. After receiving McWhorter wrote to him strongly supporting
Mourning Dove's authorship, the agent recanted his statements. Over
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Cogewea, the eponymous protagonist, is a woman of mixed-race ancestry, both
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Western tropes with Native American storytelling. In the novel, Alfred Densmore attempts to steal land and money he believes Cogewea possesses (she doesn't), and ends up abusing her when he finds out she is poor. Scholars agree that this plot line is a re-writing of the Silyx Okanagan oral story
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Okanagan cultural knowledge provided in the novel, all of which must have come from Mourning Dove. To support his perspective that McWhorter was only an editor, Weaver argues that Mourning Dove, “had already completed a draft of the book, probably in 1913,” before meeting McWhorter.
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Alanna Brown argued that though the novel was “ultimately co-written by L.V. McWhorter,” Mourning Dove’s voice remains in the novel and “in its essence, the book is hers.” Brown frequently used the term “collaboration” to describe the relationship between
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Mourning Dove's inclusion of Okanagan stories was intended to express Okanagan cultural concepts in literature. For example, Fisher notes a recurring motif of Okanagan "Spirit Power," in the novel. Throughout the book, characters with indigenous ancestry
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The novel opens with a description of the frontier landscape and introduces Cogewea, a young Okanagan (spelled "Okanogan" in the novel) who is multiracial (with a white father and Okanagan mother). Her Okanagan grandmother describes her as an impulsive and free-speaking young woman. A well-loved
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The major theme of the novel is the conflict which Cogewea feels as a "half-breed" who is caught between the Indian and white worlds, tradition and change. Cogewea's two sisters: Mary and Julia represent the two paths Cogewea could choose. Mary has maintained a traditional way of life with the
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One rancher, Silent Bob, tells a new rancher, Alfred Densmore, that Cogewea is heir to a large property and fortune, though she is not. Densmore tries to steal Cogewea’s property and money through seduction, proposing marriage. Cogewea's grandmother uses storytelling and Okanagan traditions to
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had threatened to sue the press to have the book released. Difficulties and delays in publishing the novel were partly due to shortages in paper and printing materials during World War I. But the publisher also resisted acknowledging Mourning Dove as an Indigenous novelist rather than as an
224:: the eponymous main character is a young woman who has a love for nature and is a skilled horse rider. She is headstrong but charming and loved by many at the HB Ranch. Like most members of the ranch, her heritage is Indigenous and Euro-American. Her name means 'chipmunk' (
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convince Cogewea that Densmore will take advantage of her. After a period of indecision, Cogewea refuses Densmore's proposal. He ends up taking Cogewea captive, but after he realizes that she has little financial worth, he leaves her to die in the wilderness.
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figure on her white brother-in-law's ranch, Cogewea is also well-educated in Okanagan folklore and values through her grandmother. But she feels a tension between her two cultures. Cogewea grapples with having received a western education at the
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has at least two cited names, that in turn indicate the varied cultural positions of each occupied.” Albert Braz also argues that Cogewea has “at least two” authors. McWhorter did not claim to be the author of Cogewea.
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guidance of her grandmother, while Julia has married a white man and assimilated into American culture. Her husband, John Carter, is described warmly.
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