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 XL
As the winter became more severe John Tanner returned to his “sunjegwum” where he had cached a supply of meat and was expecting to live...
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 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 XXV
John Tanner described him as “a very small old man” he had joined them in the course of the Winter and when food became scarce he set out...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XXII
It was winter and as it advanced it continually became colder. John Tanner hunted for a Trader called by the Indians Aneeb which meant...
