Paul Kending

The Beaver and the Bear Paul Kending

Jotham Marichetti dropped his Indian name when he returned to Northern Wisconsin. The Chippewa had called him Ahmeek, the Beaver, when he was a child, but as a law school graduate he would have to go back to the name his mother gave him. He would never forget, however, his Indian friends from childhood. Even after he became District Attorney of Bayfield County, he was their advocate and, with help from an unlikely friend, solved the mystery when an elderly Chippewa was found dead on the side of a highway.