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 The Falcon, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner Louise Erdrich (Introduction) • John Tanner BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2003 • PAPER • 280 PAGES
An autobiography of John Tanner, who was captured by the Shawnee in 1789 as a boy and sold to an Ojibwa family. Tanner, who married an Ojibwa woman, spent 30 years as a hunter-and-gatherer, ranging up and down the Red River of the north woods of Minnesota and surrounding territories with his adopted Ojibway kin. A keen, unsentimental observer, Tanner offers a portrait of a society and way of life long gone. He disappeared in 1846. The title of the book comes from Tanner's adopted name, Shaw-shaw-wa-be-na-se, The Falcon.
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