Word: ojibway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST PORTAGE, by Walfer O'Meara (289 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $5). In 1789 a ten-year-old boy named John Tanner was stolen from a frontier farm in Kentucky by a band of Ojibway Indians. Tanner was raised by the tribe; he wore a breechcloth, carried a tomahawk, and married an Indian woman. But he never really felt at ease among the Indians...
...tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high as 28 for one letter, and following two thin but constant veins of comic paydirt...