John Tanner was about 10 years old in 1789 and living on his family’s homestead in present-day Kentucky when he was captured by a Shawnee band. He was eventually sold to Net-no-kwa, an Ojibwa woman, with whom he traveled to “Prairie Portage” (Portage la Prairie today). They stayed with a band of Anishinaabe First Nations until game became scarce and the group began to suffer from hunger. Net-no-kwa sang and prayed to the Great Spirit and, in the night, had a vision telling her where they could find a hibernating bear. Tanner followed the landmarks she described and actually fell into the sleeping bear’s den. He was able to shoot it without any trouble. Since he couldn’t carry the bear himself, he returned to the camp and told Net-no-kwa who hugged and thanked him. Tanner reports, “The bear was sent for, and, as being the first I had killed, was cooked all together, and the hunters of the whole band invited to feast with us, according to the custom of the Indians.”