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 Ojibway and Ottawa encamped. As soon as they arrived, the Chiefs met to take their welfare into consideration and agree on some method of providing for them. One of the Chiefs said, “Our relatives have come from a distant country, the two little boys are not able to provide for them and we must not suffer them to be in want among us.” One man aft
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part IX
John was rising in the estimation of the Indians and becoming one of them but silently intended at some future time to return and live among the whites. John’s mother wanted to continue their journey to the Red River and as an added inducement she heard that the husband of one her daughters had been killed by an old man in a drunken frolic. Her daughter was in the Rainy Lake area and got word to her mother that she wished to join them and when they arrived at the east end of
