Hum-ishu-ma, also known as Christine Quintasket was born in Idaho in the mid 1880s. Her family had a blended ancestry, but she identified as a member of the Okanogan tribe. As a child she attended a mission school in Washington.
She became a published author of both fiction and traditional oral stories under the name Mourning Dove in the 1920s and 1930s. She died in 1936
This card was sent by a member of Postcrossing who currently lives and teaches in a Upik Alaskan Native village
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