Christine Quintasket (Mourning Dove)

Mourning Dove was born Christine Quintasket of the Okanagan people, and she became the first known Native American woman to publish a novel. At a time when Indigenous stories were only being told by colonizers, she fought to tell them herself. This lesson asks what it means to own your own story. Students will explore the land beneath their feet, follow Mourning Dove's trail from the bison to the page, and go outside to collect natural items and make self-portraits inspired by the world around them. Come ready to find the story only you can tell.