LeAnne Howe: Writer, Filmmaker, Storyteller     During the final weeks of the Major League Baseball season, we'll be reading LeAnne Howe's amazing novel about how the Choctaw invented baseball, The Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story.

Here are several websites that will help you enjoy and understand Howe's work.

To learn about Howe's biography and writing, take a look at --

the NativeWiki page for Howe,

Voices from the Gaps, and

Howe's faculty webpage at University of Illinois.

Howe keeps a blog titled "On the Prairie Diamond."  You'll find loads of interesting commentary here along with photos. The tab "About Miko Kings" includes links to reviews of the novel and interviews Howe has given about it.  Clicking on the tab "LeAnne Howe" will bring you to the author's own comments about her life and personality (and her flair for humor); at the bottom of that page, you'll find a link to an "official biography."

LeAnne Howe read from the Miko Kings at University of Georgia in April 2008, and someone recorded part of her reading with a cell-phone camera.  You can see the clip on YouTube. 

Native America Calling selected the Miko Kings as the book of the month in February 2008.  You can listen to the radio show focusing on Howe's book online.  (Scroll slightly down the page and look for the entry dated February 27.)

Howe has worked with filmmaker James Fortier on a documentary about Indian softball: Playing Pastime.  You can view a clip of the film in wmv (Windows Media Player) format or for formatted for Real Player.

LeAnne was featured in a May 2007 segment from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show on Indian mascots and the controversy surrounding Chief Illiniwek: click here to see the segment (and be prepared for wildly comic and biting satire).

This page was last updated on 24 September 2008.  Direct questions/comments to Nancy J. Peterson.