Paula Gunn Allen\u27s novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, is important -- one of few written by an American Indian woman focusing on an Indian woman\u27s life. (Other examples are Sophia Alice Callahan\u27s Wynemia: A Child of the Forest, 1891, and Mourning Dove\u27s Cogewea, the Half Blood, 1927). Allen writes out of her Laguna Pueblo heritage (she says she is Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Lebanese-American), and gives the reader a view of a contemporary Indian woman\u27s life through her character, Ephanie