Early Life
Born on the Red Lake Native American Reservation in 1929, Nordwall was the son of a Swedish man and Chippewa Woman. At the age of five, his father died and left his mother no choice but to send all of her children away to Boarding School. He took advantage of his time at the school and improved many skills that would help him later in life as well as escaping the Depression, famine, and disease that were running rampant on reservations at the time. He attended the Haskell Institute in Kansas where he met his future wife and Shoshone Indian, Bobbie.
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