Cogewea, The Half Blood

A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

Mourning Dove

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780803230699
• eBook ISBN:
  9780803284067
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Errata
• Dedication
• Contents
• To the Reader
• Chapter I. Cogewea, The Half-Blood
• Chapter II. The Roundup at Horseshoe Bend
• Chapter III. A Range Idyl
• Chapter IV. Cogewea Hires the Tenderfoot
• Chapter V. The Tenderfoot’s Broncho Riding
• Chapter VI. The Fourth of July
• Chapter VII. The “Ladies” and the “Squaw” Races
• Chapter VIII. The Indian Dancers
• Chapter IX. Under the Whispering Pines
• Chapter X. LO! The Poor “Breed”
• Chapter XI. At the Tepee Fireside
• Chapter XII. On Buffalo Butte
• Chapter XIII. A Visit to Stemteema’s Tepee
• Chapter XIV. The Dead Man’s Vision
• Chapter XV. The Superior Race
• Chapter XVI. On the Old Buffalo Grounds
• Chapter XVII. Frenchy, Toy of the Cowboys
• Chapter XVIII. Swa-Lah-Kin: The Frog-Woman
• Chapter XIX. The Story of Green-Blanket Feet
• Chapter XX. A Tragedy of the Range
• Chapter XXI. A “Geezar” in Camp
• Chapter XXII. Back to the Ranch
• Chapter XXIII. The Basket Social
• Chapter XXIV. The Second Coming of the Shoyahpee
• Chapter XXV. Voice of the Autumn Leaves
• Chapter XXVI. Stemteema Consults the Sweat House
• Chapter XXVII. The Forked Tongue of the Shoyahpee
• Chapter XXVIII. The Sentinel at the Rock
• Chapter XXIX. Stemteema’s Dream of the Soma-Ash-Hee
• Chapter XXX. The Cost of Knowing
• Chapter XXXI. A Voice from the Buffalo Skull
• Endnotes
• Back Cover