John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXIX
As the war party of Muskegoes and Ojibbeway’s rested at a spring an old warrior made a divination concluding that a large band of Sioux...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXVIII
To become a warrior, rites of initiation take place for the young, they must constantly paint their face black, wear a cap or head dress,...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXVII
While joining in the hunt for Buffalo during the rutting season John described the sound caused by their incessant tramping mixed with...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXVI
John returned to his lodge from a trip to the Trading Post and was surprised as Red Sky in the Morning was sitting in his place, he...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXIV
According to John suicide was not infrequent among the Indians and was effected in various ways; shooting, hanging, drowning, poisoning...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXIII
It was in the Fall of the year, John estimated he was something more than twenty-one years of age. He traveled with the family and many...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXII
John Tanner’s family had been increased by the addition of a poor old Ojibway woman and two children who were destitute of any men and...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXX
The Trader brought a large quantity of rum and encamped a few miles from his house so if the Indians over indulged any trouble would not...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXVII
John with his brother and his wife started to return home, they got to the village where they had tried to kill his horse. They slept...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXIV
Leaves were out on the trees, the bark peeled and John was killing Sturgeon in the rivers. It didn’t last, there came a snow more than...
