Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

By Raymond C. Kaquatosh

Book Overview

"Little Hawk" was born Raymond Kaquatosh in 1924 on Wisconsin's Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, Ray spent his Depression-era boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family.
After his father's death, eight-year-old Ray was sent to an Indian boarding school in Keshena. There he experienced isolation and despair, but also comfort and kindness. Upon his return home, Ray remained a lonely boy in a full house until he met and befriended a lone timber wolf. The unusual bond they formed would last through both their lifetimes. As Ray grew into a young man, he left the reservation more frequently. Yet whenever he returned--from school and work, from service in the Marines, and finally from postwar Wausau with his future wife--the wolf waited.
In this rare first-person narrative of a Menominee Indian's coming of age, Raymond Kaquatosh shares a story that is wise and irreverent, often funny, and in the end, deeply moving.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870206508
• ISBN13: 9780870206504
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.1"