About the book: 1963 / The story of John Tenner is an artless, truthful, dramatic story about the life and adventures of a man who, at the end of the 18th century, was a nine-year-old boy was kidnapped by North American Indians and, adopted by them, spent 30 years among them. From this book, which deeply excited the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin in his time as a reliable document exposing the hypocrisy of American democracy and the cruelty of white “civilizers,” the reader will learn about the difficult struggle for the existence of Indian hunters and trappers, about the harsh nature surrounding them, about the morals, customs and beliefs of these people, who were then at the stage of primitive communal relations. He also learns about how the predecessors of modern racists robbed and soldered the Indians, buying up expensive furs for next to nothing, set some tribes against others, dragged them into feuds between competing fur companies and covered up their atrocities with slander against “primitive savages”, portraying them as bloodthirsty, deceitful and greedy pagans. The tragic story of John Tenner, who did not find a place for himself in a selfish world white people, where he returned as a mature man, will undoubtedly interest not only the general reader, but also specialists in ethnography, historical geography and the history of North America.