""A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of
fire . . . He's a very different kind of "Wasano," bloodsucker, he
always hungers for more."--from "Shell Shaker
The action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a
Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s,
as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover
of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of
their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors
did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, and
resourcefulness are the Billys' only weapons.
Until the Shell Shaker shows up.
LeAnne Howe, an enrolled member of theChoctaw Nation of
Oklahoma, is a fiction writer, playwright, scholar and poet whose
writings on Choctaw women are drawn from both personal experience
and scholarly research. Her short fiction has appeared in several
anthologies, including "Through the Eye of the Deer," "Returning
the Gift," "Spider Woman's Granddaughters," and "Earth Song, Sky
Spirit, " as well as in journals such as "Callaloo" and "Fiction
International."
Howe has read her fiction and lectured throughout the United
States, Japan and the Middle East, and her plays have been produced
in Los Angeles and New York City. She has also presented programs
on recruitment and retention of American Indians at universities
and colleges. Currently, she teaches in the English Department at
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
In 1991, Howe received a National Endowment for the Humanities
grant to conduct research for "Shell Shaker."
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