Carried off as a child around 1789, John Tanner was adopted into an Ottawa family and grew up as an Ojibwe hunter in the country between the Great Lakes and the Red River. Dictated to Dr. Edwin James, his account describes hunting, famine, warfare, the fur trade and religion from the inside, and the hard years after he tried to return to white society.
One of the most valuable captivity narratives in American literature, a firsthand record of Anishinaabe life. Download the free EPUB.