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A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner, (U.S. interpreter at the Saut de Ste. Marie,): during thirty years residence among the Indians in the interior of North America
G. & C. & H. Carvill • New York • Published In 1830 • Pages:
By: Tanner, John, James, Edwin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is divided into two major parts. Part I is the autobiographical narrative of John Tanner, depicting his life and adventures during his thirty year's captivity among the Ojibwa. First captured at the age of nine from his parents' home in Kentucky by Shawnee Indians (ca. 1789), he was later adopted into the family of his captors and eventually sold to a member of the Ojibwa-Ottawa band. The major portion of part I describes his growing up and assimilation into the band, his travels and experiences as a fur trader, and his unsuccessful return to white society. Part II of this document presents some limited ethnographic data on the Ojibwa related primarily to their feasts and fasts, dreaming experiences, and religion. This section also contains lists of plants and animals known to the Ojibwa, their clan totems, and the texts of various songs used in hunting and medicine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Writing
- Hunting and trapping
- Alcoholic beverages
- External trade
- Travel
- Music
- Clans
- Warfare
- Texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780s - ca. 1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: Great Lakes region, United States and southern Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- prepared for the press by Edwin James
- Sabin 35684, 94330
- Graff Coll. 2189
- Pilling, J.C. Bibl. Algonquian langs., p. 256-257
- Wagner-Camp-Becker 40:1
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02023460
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians