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The Last Portage

Walter O'Meara

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Description:"The Last Portage is based on the true and original account of a white man who spent thirty years of his life as a member of an Indian tribe. This history begins in the year 1789 on the Kentucky frontier, when nine-year-old John Tanner disobeyed his fathers' orders and slipped out of the family cabin and into the waiting hands of a party of Shawnee, who carried him off to their village in the Northwest Territory. Later he was traded to an Ojibway woman, Netnokwa - an extraordinary character, so powerful that, contrary to Indian custom, she was accepted as chief of her tribe. Netnokwa was devoted to John Tanner, as she was to all her children whether they were hers by blood or adoption, and he repaid her devotion with affection and loyalty. Convinced that his family had all been massacred, he accepted his lot, learned the Indian language and gradually forgot his own, married an Indian girl, and became a more skillful hunter than the Indians themselves. But in the back of his mind he kept the thought that someday he would go back. In the end, after thirty years, Tanner did go back, to live for almost another thirty years with his own people and to learn that just as he had not been quite an Indian, so he was not quite a white man, but something tragically in between." [Quoted from the dust jacket.]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Portage. To get started finding The Last Portage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 289

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: 1962

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Description: "The Last Portage is based on the true and original account of a white man who spent thirty years of his life as a member of an Indian tribe. This history begins in the year 1789 on the Kentucky frontier, when nine-year-old John Tanner disobeyed his fathers' orders and slipped out of the family cabin and into the waiting hands of a party of Shawnee, who carried him off to their village in the Northwest Territory. Later he was traded to an Ojibway woman, Netnokwa - an extraordinary character, so powerful that, contrary to Indian custom, she was accepted as chief of her tribe. Netnokwa was devoted to John Tanner, as she was to all her children whether they were hers by blood or adoption, and he repaid her devotion with affection and loyalty. Convinced that his family had all been massacred, he accepted his lot, learned the Indian language and gradually forgot his own, married an Indian girl, and became a more skillful hunter than the Indians themselves. But in the back of his mind he kept the thought that someday he would go back. In the end, after thirty years, Tanner did go back, to live for almost another thirty years with his own people and to learn that just as he had not been quite an Indian, so he was not quite a white man, but something tragically in between." [Quoted from the dust jacket.]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Portage. To get started finding The Last Portage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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