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BIOGRAPHY Hazel Wolf was born March 10th, 1898 in Victoria, British Columbia . She grew up poor and her early years are largely dedicated to class and poverty related issues. She was formally trained as a social worker, but felt most at home among her people. This led to her involvement in the Communist party, where she felt she was doing 'real' social work. By the time of McCarthyism , Wolf was being targeted by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service as a subversive foreign national. Her deportation cases lasted from 1949 to 1963. She later became a US citizen, but made no apologies for having been a member of the communist party. Her later years were largely dominated by her Environmental Activism , which led her to Washington D.C. to lobby congress on issues that were important to her. She became nationally recognized and was awarded the National Audobon Society 's Medal of Excellence. She travelled and lectured intensively, making connections with and between indigenous people, labor, and environmentalists. She travelled to Nicaragua in the late 1980's and early 1990's, seeing hope in the connection that the Sandinistas made between environmental stewardship and Democratic Socialism . Hazel Wolf died on January 19, 2001 at 101 years of age {Link without Title} . SOURCES Starbuck, S. (2003). Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. Seattle. University of Washington Press. |
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