Alice Too

About the Book

Native American code talkers from tribes like the Navajo and Choctaw served in both World War I and World War II, using their unwritten tribal languages to send encrypted battlefield messages. This novel tells the story of a family of code talkers in Indian Time. It is a sequel to author Stephen WinterHawk’s novel Alice, in which the secret word is Miinawa. Can you crack open this code when colonists, would-be conquerors, and Nazis alike have failed—even if you know that this word means “again, there is more”? WinterHawk writes to further Truth and Reconciliation for the Anishinabe people. To do this he uses his personal experiences in Dreamtime. This novel began with his dreams, and thus he does not ask the reader to literally believe what he wrote. This can be viewed as a work of fiction, a novel similar to the stories that his ancestors told around their campfires. Now he asks you to suspend disbelief and simply accept that our people’s stories are as real as any of the scriptures written about sacred men who walked on water and healed people. All he asks is that you might believe that his people have accepted the stories of your people, and now they are saying Miinawa, an Ojibwe word—there is more.

About the Author

Stephen Laforme is a Status Indian—a band member and elder of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations. He was born on the New Credit Reserve in Canada and moved to Toronto at age nineteen. The author of six books on Truth and Reconciliation, he is also an elder for the Four Colours Drum Circle, who have been custodians of a Medicine Wheel Garden in Heart Lake Brampton for fifteen years. WinterHawk is one of his spirit names, given to Stephen in his dreams.