The Hooks Family

A Heritage Volume · Privately Preserved · Anno MMXXVI

Jú-ah-kís-gaw, Woman With Her Child in a Cradle — George Catlin, 1835. An Ojibwe (Chippewa) mother holding her child in a cradleboard, from the era of Florence Lightfoot's ancestors.

Jú-ah-kís-gaw, Woman With Her Child in a Cradle George Catlin · 1835 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Hooks
Family Legacy

From the bluffs of the Mississippi to a plate built for the body that carries them —
an eleven-thread chronicle of a name, a land, and a people.

George & Florence Hooks

Dubuque, Iowa · Potosi, Wisconsin

9 April 1913 — carriers of the Chippewa thread

Compiled for Ryan Hooks · Madison, Wisconsin · April 2026