William Little Wolf left his home on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation as a child to attend a series of boarding schools. In 1917, he ran away from Carlisle Indian Industrial School in order to join the Navy and fight for the United States in World War I. He earned praise for his service as a gunner on the USS Utah and returned in 1919 to live out the rest of his life in Minnesota.
Uniformed Ojibwe soldiers returned to Wisconsin from fighting in World War I gather with other Ojibwe wearing traditional regalia on June 19, 1919. Interpreter Ira O. Isham is in the foreground.
William Little Wolf (enlisted as "William Leon Wolfe") in his US Navy uniform, 1917. Carlisle Indian School Digital Archives/National Archives and Records Administration.
The cover of Food Is Medicine, by Winona LaDuke with Sarah Alexander. The book was published in 2004 by the White Earth Land Recovery Project and Honor the Earth.
