 Meanwhile, during his youth, he had been a farm worker, truck driver, mechanic, handyman, and boxer, among others.but his father divorced and remarried, and he was raised on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation near Woodruff, Wisconsin.Whitecloud studied in New Mexico and California, receiving his degree in medicine from Tulane University.Throughout his life, he worked with institutions like the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to further Indian causes.