Coyote: An Indian Casino Blues

Coyote, set in the year 2003, follows Beffle, a playful middle-aged woman who manages the Ohlone Indian Casino in Carmel Valley, California, through a series of perils, deceptions, mysteries, and adventures taking place in Ohio at her 30th high school reunion, in Carmel Valley, in Las Vegas, and at Foxwoods, the Mashantucket Pequot Indians' casino in Connecticut. Throughout, Beffle, a pure Anglo, must pose as half Huron because to qualify for her job she had to tell her boss, Two Bears, she is partly Native American. Coyote holds tightly to Beffle's point-of-view and moves along a story line close to the fault where modern Anglo life and traditional Indian life grind and fuse, in a milieu where the politics of crime, conflict, and deceit rule.