John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part IX
John was rising in the estimation of the Indians and becoming one of them but silently intended at some future time to return and live...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part VIII
The winter weather became severe and they began to grow poor, John was thirteen and his brother seventeen, game was not plentiful, they...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part VII
John’s father had over indulged and was intoxicated and he caused a ruckus with a younger man who roughly pushed him down and then picked...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part VI
John Tanner the Falcon requested permission to go and try to kill some pigeons with a pistol, his mother Net-no-kwa said “it is time for...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part V
John Tanner was a captive, the men were often drunk and whenever that was so John learned to run and hide in the woods and dared not...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part IV
In the Fall the corn was gathered and disposed of in Ca-ches where they hid it for winter and afterwards went to hunt. John accompanied...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part III
The Indians paddled on, it was about mid-day when they landed in a wooded area, they sought out a large hollow log open at one end into...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part II
John had been kidnapped. He could plainly see his father’s house and they had laughed as they pulled him away. He hoped to find a way to...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part I
John Tanner was born in 1780 on the Kentucky River; He was a man who lived as a white boy only nine years, he was captured and spent...
The Life of Jeremiah Johnston: Part XI
It was Thursday July 21, 1898 when Missionary/newspaper reporter Rodgers left the Sault Rapids on the Kenora at 8:00 AM. He described the...
