Grandpa called together relatives, including Paul Pitts, who was chief of the tribe at the time and invited them to come out to the house where the family had put up a large 3-pole tent (on a related incident, that spring Lamont Brown, a Ponca man, made a song for me and presented it to my mother, who accepted the song and with the permission of the In-Lon-Schka committee put the song in the drum at the Hominy District). One of them had two roaches and he put that roach on me. I was out playing and went up to my grandpa’s room and he just picked out the different parts of the costume: moccasins, leggings, shirt, tail, everything, out of my uncle’s suitcases. They were in his bedroom in the new house west of Hominy.
GS: My grandfather Bob Morrell called my two uncles, Preston and George Morrell, together with their dance outfits and told them to open their suitcases. ON: When did you start dancing at In-Lon-Schka? He was a 2014 recipient of the AARP’s Indian Elder Honors and is currently serving his second term on the Nation’s Traditional Cultural Advisors Committee. He is responsible for many tribes gaining 8(a) small business designation in order to qualify for preference in contracting (including the Osage Nation) with the federal government. With a degree in Business from the University of Oklahoma, he’s been a Federal Estate Tax Specialist, he has served as a Fiduciary Trust Officer for banks in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Calif., and Tulsa, until he went into business for himself as a business consultant for many Oklahoma tribes. He has seven grandchildren, with one of his granddaughters, Blake Sisk, recently deceased and 10 great-grandchildren. Their six children are Susan Shannon, Stanley Shannon (deceased), Ruth Shannon Shaw, Carolyn Shannon (deceased), Allen Shannon and Margaret Shannon Sisk. Shannon has six children with his late wife Mary Agnes Wagoshe Shannon, who passed away in 1991. He has one sister, Mary Shannon Brave and two half brothers, Charles Shannon (deceased) and Claude Shannon Jr. He is a member of the Morrell Family Chapter Native American Church.
He is of the Hominy District, the Deer Clan and his Osage name is Wah-Kon-See-A – When the Deer Herd Looks Up.
He is the grandson of Bob and Grace Penn Morrell. His parents are Claude Shannon (non-Indian) and Lenora Morrell Hamilton, the first full-blood Osage woman to graduate high school. He was born in Tulsa at Hillcrest Hospital in 1934. George Albert Shannon, 83, resides in Skiatook with his high school sweetheart, Elnora Supernaw Shannon.
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