John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXIV
Leaves were out on the trees, the bark peeled and John was killing Sturgeon in the rivers. It didn’t last, there came a snow more than knee deep with a frost so severe that the trees cracked as in the middle of winter, the river froze and many trees died. At the Mouse River Trading House the Assinneboins, Crees and Ojibbeways were assembling to go join the Mandans in making war upon the A-gutch-o-ninnw-wug. John wanted to join them and told Old Woman “I will go with my uncl
