The Falcon Goes Native

[drew hempel]

The book "THE FALCON" by John Tanner is an amazing autobiography of a white who was kidnapped in the late 1700s -- around there. John Tanner was raised by an Ojibwe band who were constantly struggling to survive against the encroaching whites and other tribes.

The style of the book is gritty detail so you actually RE-LIVE John Tanners Native life. He is saved by a Matriarch who goes, quite frequently, several days without food -- sometimes 6 or 7 -- in order to make sure her band can find game for hunting. She is one fucking kiss-ass Shaman goddess and claims to have visions leading to successful hunting -- although even her band are suspicious. No one can doubt her tenacity.

Then John Tanner returns to the West -- and he dies almost immediately after completely his autobiography. The dude can't even sleep indoors -- so harmonized is his energy with Nature. He fucking HATES the West and can't stand Whites -- by reading this book you can understand why he is right and you, the reader, are wrong.

http://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Penguin-Classics-John-Tanner/dp/0142437514

[Dna]

I read the first bit of this on the amazon - it a good read allright. I am considering getting it. Thanks Drew.

Dna.

[drew hempel]

It's one of those anti-book books that I love so much. I read books to gain "intellectual self-defense" as Chomsky calls it.

[Dna]

It's one of those anti-book books that I love so much. I read books to gain "intellectual self-defense" as Chomsky calls it.

Well does seem to me a good read to me. The prose is uncomplicated and direct.

[Isaiah Mpski]

Google Cynthia Ann Parker and her brother John Parker for more insight.

[drew hempel]

She never adjusted to white life and was often locked in her room to keep her from running away. In 1863, Cynthia received word that her son Pecos had died of smallpox, and only a few months later, the her daughter died of influenza. Topsannah's death from fever in 1863 was the final blow for Cynthia Ann. Often refusing to speak or eat, she died in 1870 of influenza at the age of 43.