User:Spottedwolf

Spottedwolf is the 'spiritual' name for a man living in central British Columbia, Canada.

The name evolved from a background of personal growth in searching out the dynamics of his childhood and their effects on his personality and life in general over some 47 years. The significance of the name is found in the two distinct aspects of its composition. Spotted refers to a variety of situations experienced and the patches of personality which developed personal ability or wisdom. Wolf is a metaphor for a belief in an innate quality concerning social responsibility to environment including but not restricted to people. The name came through a series of vision quests culminating in a Yuwippi ceremony by a Lakota medicine man.

Spottedwolf's real name is Dennis Ouellette who is of caucasion/aboriginal ancestry. His aboriginal ancestry is in the Metis people who had their cultural roots in the fur trade not exclusive to but closely originating in the area of the Red River which runs from the Dakota area into Manitoba. His family history includes participation in the uprising of 1885 in the Batoche area around Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

Dennis grew up in a classically dysfunctional single-parent suburban family. Early in the first year of life his mother moved from Edmonton, Alberta, canada to rejoin her parents in central Florida. His earliest memories are of the south and living in Enterprise, Florida. The family moved to Houston, Texas sometime around 1957 and after a brief stay returned to Florida only to again move to Texas. The second time was permanent with a final settling in Pasadena, a suburbun small town on the southeast side of Houston.