Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir
“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. 
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Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir
“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. 
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Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

by Raymond Kaquatosh
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

by Raymond Kaquatosh

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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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781976600029
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication date: 08/30/2022
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 14 Years

About the Author

Raymond Claud Kaquatosh was born in 1924 in Neopit, Wis¬consin. He spent his early years on the Menominee Indian Res¬ervation and at the Menominee Boarding School at Keshena. Ray served in the US Marine Corps in World War II and the Korean War and later attended high schools in Keshena, Wausau, and Stevens Point; Milwaukee Area Technical College; the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; and the University of Wisconsin Law School. In August 1947 he became one of the first Menominee Indians to earn a pilot’s certificate.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword Dr. S. Verna Fowler, Founding President, College of Menominee Nation xi

1 Birth of Little Hawk 1

2 Reservation Boyhood 6

3 The Great Spirit Beckons 14

4 Poverty 17

5 Dillinger 19

6 Keshena Boys' School 23

7 Lonely Valentine 32

8 House of God 36

9 The Hospital 40

10 Easter Sunday 47

11 Back to Classes 54

12 Picnic 57

13 Return to the Reservation 60

14 Summer 66

15 Cherry-Picking Time 70

16 First Driving Lesson 73

17 Harvest Feast 75

13 Witchcraft 78

19 Wolf 80

20 Kernel 87

21 Another Fight 92

22 Tragedy 97

23 Boy and Wolf 101

24 Model A 105

25 Ray's Taxi 109

26 Saturday Night 114

27 High School Years 118

28 Aviary Clan 123

29 Baraboo 126

30 Boot Camp 133

31 Born to Fight 141

32 Sharpshooter 145

33 Grudge Fight 147

34 Assignments 152

35 Naval Training Center 155

36 Overseas 158

37 Peleliu Island, Palau 163

38 Prank 169

39 Thanksgiving 1944 171

40 Never Volunteer 174

41 Homeward Bound 184

42 Naval Hospital 192

43 Angel in Wausau 198

44 Bar Room Brawl 203

45 St. Mary's Hospital 207

46 Premonition 214

47 Wolf Reunion 219

48 The Great Spirit Beckons Again 223

49 Dear John 226

50 April 228

51 Home Once More 236

52 The One and Only 239

53 Destiny 244

54 Wings 248

55 Hawk's Mate 252

Epilogue 255

Acknowledgments 257

About the Author 259

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