Imagine being taken from everything you know before you are old enough to remember it, raised among people whose language, customs, and rituals become the only world you have ever understood, and then one day finding yourself cast between two civilizations, belonging fully to neither. This is not fiction. This is the true and extraordinary account of John Dunn Hunter, who spent the formative years of his life living among the Indigenous nations of North America, adopted into their communit...

"Captured by Kickapoo warriors in 1797, Hunter was held for several years by that tribe before being seized by Kansas Indians during a battle." - Handbook of the American Frontier (1987)"Having formed acquaintance with fur traders, he abandoned his Indian life in 1816 and engaged in trading." - Hubert Howe Bancroft"John Dunn Hunter's eventful and controversial life deserves revival." -KIRKUS REVIEW"Celebrated first as a gifted 'white ...