"Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence."

Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) (ca. 1884-1936)

Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, an Interior Salish woman who collected tribal stories among Northern Plateau peoples in the early twentieth century.

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