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 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 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. ...
