2. When Mountain Wolf Woman
was born, Wisconsin had only
been a state for 36 years.
Her first home was in Black
River Falls, WI. Later, the
government made her tribe
move to Nebraska.
3. When Mountain Wolf Woman was 9 years old, her oldest
brother thought that she should go to school. She went
to school for about 2 years but stopped. She started
again much later.
Mountain Wolf Woman helped her family by building
wigwams, looking after her sisters and brothers,
stringing beans, and making mats.
4. Once she was all grown up, she left her first husband
and married a man that her oldest brother
recommended.
Mountain Wolf Woman and her husband had 11
children.
They lived in Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, and
Oregon.
She worked as a midwife, a person who helps women
deliver their babies. She would also plant gardens,
pick berries, make mats, sew, cook, and dance.
