John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XLI
John and family found it necessary to move their lodge as game began to be exhausted, they went up the Assinneboin about ten miles and...
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 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 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 XXXI
John had hunted with the other members of the family, it took nearly all day but they had literally run down a herd of Elk killing four. ...
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 XXIX
Spring arrived and John and his family traveled towards the old sugar camp, John personally disliked being with the Indians in this,...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXVIII
John had taken part in a hastily proposed but successful beaver hunt that ended up distant from the trading post and the result was a...
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...
