Adolf Hungry Wolf

Tribal Childhood
The Tipi
Traditional Dress
Legends Told by the Old People of Many Tribes
Blackfoot Craftworker’s Book
Pow-Wow Dancer’s and Craftworker’s Handbook
Mountain Home
Teachings of Nature
Indian Tribes of the Northern Rockies
Children of the Circle

Adolf Hungry Wolf was born Adolf Gutohrlein in southern Germany in 1944 to a Swiss father and a Hungarian mother. At age ten he moved with his parents to California. With earnings from his paper route, he bought a plot of land in the mountains and began listening to the stories of an elderly Indian couple. Pondering a law career, he traveled as a young man to the annual North American Indian Says celebration. There he met White Calf and became engrossed with the Blackfeet land and people. White Calf eventually gave Adolf his first ceremonial initiations.
Adolf Hungry Wolf did not simply study the Blackfoot peoples. He lived among them for decades, married into the Hungry Wolf clan and raised his family according to Blackfoot traditions. He came to receive the respect and admiration of many of the tribal elders for his self-sacrifice and devotion to preserving their history and way of life.
Today Adolf Hungry Wolf lives in British Columbia on 320 wilderness acres. He lives without electricity or running water. He writes on a manual typewriter and at night by the light of kerosene lamps.