title: Shooting Chant: An Ella Clah Novel
author: Aime Thurlo
description: Former FBI agent, now special investigator with the Navajo Police, Ella Clah knows it's her police training, not the special gift of sensing she's supposed to have inherited from her clan ancestors, that accounts for her unease when troubling things begin happening on the reservation. Lab reports on pregnant women have been stolen from the health clinic, a Navajo guard at the LabKote factory has been murdered, and two native leaders have been kidnapped. The evidence points toward an activist Indian group known as the Fierce Ones, who have been protesting the deal that leaders made with the medical supply company that's on their land. Tensions are running high between the traditionalists and the moderns, the natives who want a return to the old ways and those who embrace the white man's technology to increase their crop yields and improve their brood animals. Not only is Ella stunned to learn that among the masked Fierce Ones is her beloved brother, a healer, but she's just discovered she's pregnant, by a tribal lawyer whose clan has been at odds with her own since the days of their ancestors.
zlib_text: D edic ation
  To Kurdish women,
  for flourishing in barren fields;
  to F arz ad Kamangar,
  for imagining otherwise;
  and
  to Ehsan,
  for braving the storms with and for me.
  
  E p igrap h
  What else can you do when your stage is an ember
  and your audience a gun?
  That’s what you had to do.
  You had to write poetry with the tip of the flame
  And set fire to your fear and silence.
  —Sherko Bekas ( 194 0 – 20 13)
  
  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Epigraph
  Map
  Prologue
  Part I: Leila
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Part II: Alan
  Chapter Fourteen
  Part III: Leila
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  
  Chapter Twenty
  Chapter Twenty-One
  Chapter Twenty-Two
  Chapter Twenty-Three
  Chapter Twenty-Four
  Chapter Twenty-Five
  Part IV: Chia
  Chapter Twenty-Six
  Part V: Leila
  Chapter Twenty-Seven
  Chapter Twenty-Eight
  Chapter Twenty-