Beverly Hungry Wolf
Author of The Ways of My Grandmothers
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- 1950-04-01
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- British Columbia, Canada
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- Gutohrlein, Adolpf (husband)
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- Beverly Hungry Wolf was raised on Canada's largest Indian reservation and speaks the Blackfoot language.
Beverly Hungry Wolf was born in 1950 in the Blood Indian Hospital on the Blood Indian Reserve in Canada. She is a member of the Little Bear family, the Blood tribe, and the Blackfoot Nation. She was educated at the boarding school on the reserve and after finishing her college education, returned to the reserve as a teacher. She married a German, Adolph Gutohrlein, who encouraged her to preserve her traditions. They encountered some enmity among the Indians and together they wrote Shadows of the Buffalo which tells of their experiences. Beverly Hungry Wolf now lives with her husband and children in British Columbia.
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> PAROLES D’INDIENNES, Le livre de mes grands-mères, de Beverly Hungry Wolf, Traduit de l’anglais par Claude Gilbert. — NÉE dans la réserve des Indiens Blood, en Colombie britannique, Beverly Hungry Wolf a connu la vie d’une jeune Indienne Blackfoot élevée dans la langue et les coutumes de sa tribu. Aujourd’hui, inquiète de voir disparaitre les traditions de son peuple, elle réunit toutes les informations qui permettent d’en conserver la mémoire. Histoires de sa mère, de sa grand-mère, d’autres femmes de la tribu qui, selon la coutume, sont aussi ses grands-mères. Une contribution importante à la connaissance des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord. Ed. Plon, 207 pages
—Le devoir, 16 février 1991, Cahier D… (more)