John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part X
John’s family paddled up the Red River and in two days came to the mouth of the Assiniboine River where they found great numbers of...
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 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 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...
