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Beverly Hungry Wolf

Canadian writer

Beverly Hungry Wolf (Sikski-Aki, or Black-faced Woman; born 1950) is a Canadian writer and a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy.[1]

Life

She was born Beverly Little Bear in 1950 near Cardston, Alberta, on Blood Indian Reserve No. 148, and studied at a Catholicresidential school on the reserve.[2] The school discouraged interest in her tribe's traditions, but, as an adult, she started investigating and recording them after she married a German man, Adolph Gutöhrlein.[1] Gutöhrlein was fascinated with First Nations' culture, having immersed himself in it and adopting the surname Hungry Wolf.[1]

Along with her husband, Hungry Wolf has published a number of books about her personal and her people's experiences.[1] She interviewed her female relatives and tribal elders, collecting information about gender roles, domestic arts, child rearing, myths and legends, which she published in Ways of my Grandmothers (1980).[2][3] Her interview subjects included her gran

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Author Tags: Indigenous

Born on the Blood Indian Reserve in southern Alberta, Beverly Hungry Wolf was raised in a large family, attended boarding school and met her European-born husband at a powwow in Montana. They raised a family in Skookumchuck, B.C. and collaborated on numerous books. She is the lone author of The Ways of my Grandmother and also Daughters of the Buffalo Women: Maintaining the Tribal Faith. Both reflect the stories and wisdom of her mother Ruth Little Bear and her female ancestors and elders. [See Adolf Hungry Wolf]

BOOKS:

Hungry Wolf, Beverly. The Ways of my Grandmother (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1980)
Hungry Wolf, Beverly. Daughters of the Buffalo Women: Maintaining the Tribal Faith (Skookumchuck: Canadian Caboose Press, 1996)

[BCBW 2003]


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It’s natural to think of Blackfeet in generations for some reason. Beverly is of my generation or a bit younger. (She was born in 1950. I was born in 1939.) We’ve known each other about forty years, since she first showed up in Browning as the wife of Adolf Hungry Wolf. The last time I talked to her she was just leaving a teaching job at Piegan Institute. Her mother was not well and Beverly herself had been badly hurt in a car crash. I think this 1996 book was written after that. Her mother is gone, but so far as I know, Beverly has recovered. Adolf was in town last week, but I didn’t see him. He and Beverly are divorced now.

This book, “Daughters of the Buffalo Women: Maintaining the Tribal Faith” (Canadian Caboose Press, 1996. ISBN 0-920698-45-5) is self-published but high quality. The cover is graced by a wonderful double portrait done by Winold Reiss, reproduced through the courtesy of Winold’s son, W. Tjark Reiss. (Tjark was the same generation as Bob Scriver, born in 1914. Both are gone.) A title for the portrait is “Picunnie Pemmika

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