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Four Color (August 1950), #290

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Untitled Story

Storyline: American Indians doing a night-time dance.

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Buffalo Caller

Storyline: While his three comrades eat breakfast, Running Wolf, a Pawnee, nephew of Chief War Eagle, finds a buffalo herd that could feed the tribe for a year. Three Cheyenne enemy hunters appear, rivals for the herd, and liable to scalp him. Running Wolf's bow-string breaks. He flees, diving in the river, hiding underwater against a rock in the rapids. The Cheyenne believe him dead. Running Wolf runs home; he alerts War Eagle of the herd and the Cheyenne.

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The Towers of Death...

Storyline: Once upon a time there was a nearby Pueblo Indian town of stone and brick. One rainy night a Pueblo band sneaked in the Pawnee village and stole the Pawnee's sacred bundle. The next evening, Pawnee Chief Wounded Bear led a band of his braves to attack the Pueblo town and retrieve the sacred bundle, but they were surprised by the Pueblos, and only Wounded Bear escaped. He raised an army, but they found the Pueblo town deserted, but for some corpses. The sacred bundle was missing. The trail was lost, and Pawnee fell ill with the Pueblo sickness.

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Apache Grass Hogan

Storyline: The building of thatch huts among the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona. Informative text accompanies borderless panel illustrations, with dialogue balloons, of an Apache family building a winter home: Clearing a circle, cutting of saplings for a dome frame, tying bundles of bear-grass to the frame, from bottom to top. (Chippewas use birch bark.) For a summer home: a three-sided house thatched on top, and thatched only part-way up on three walls.

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Blunt Arrow Boy

Storyline: Those little rascals of the Pawnee village, Badger Cub and Little Doe, play mischief with Auntie Crowfoot at her labors, as Badger Cub shoots a blunt arrow, knocking over her water gourd for target practice. In her ire, Auntie Crowfoot gives chase. They elude her, and Badger Cub continues target practice, knocking down a cottontail. They come upon a dead rattler, trampled by the hooves of a mare, herself dead of snake-bite; and her colt who will not desert his mother's carcass.

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Blackfeet Chieftain

Storyline: Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Blackfeet chieftain, wearing a head-dress.

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War Clubs and Tomahawks

Storyline: Illustrations of war clubs, tomahawks, and lacrosse sticks, with hand-lettered text.

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Sac and Fox Warrior

Storyline: Head and shoulders portrait of a warrior with mohawk haircut and war paint.

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Untitled Story

Storyline: Four mounted Indians, three wielding lances, and one wielding a tomahawk, gallop over a small grassy bluff. The lead Indian wearing a head-dress, holding his lance forward, in a charge. The caption of this house-ad reads, "Authentic stories, portraying the life and customs of the American Indian before the coming of the White Man."

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