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Subject Matter
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Indian Chief
Character(s):
Red Hawk (Blackfoot Chieftain); Eagle Talon (Blackfoot warrior, White Aster's groom); White Aster (Blackfoot squaw, Eagle Talon's bride); four Blackfoot hunters (pictured); six Crow raiders (pictured, dialogue); assorted Assiniboins (pictured); Assiniboin chief (dialogue); [Atius] Tirawa (invoked); two Crow scouts (pictured, described); two Crow assailants; rabbit; assorted Crow villagers; three Crow warriors at the quarry; the shaman of the sacred quarry; the Great Spirit (attributed); lightning bolt; oak tree; Blackfoot tribesmen; Blackfoot potter; cowardly Crow tribesmen; Crow Chief
First Line:
Come, Eagle Talon, join the Blackfoot warriors in the hunt or there will be no wedding feast for you and White Aster.
Synopsis:
Crow raid the Blackfoot village as the braves are away hunting game for Eagle Talon and White Aster's wedding feast. ET returns for his quiver, the tipis in flame, weapons and WA carried off. He fights, and is knocked senseless, left for dead, rises. Crow attack him at night. He fights again, escapes, fights hunger, finds the Crow village, recovers the stolen weapons, fights again, fights the rapids, makes the quarry, fights the Crow there, make the deadline, with his tribe attacks the Crow, fighting again. Peace is made. He and WA are busy cooing.
Reprinting
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Pages:
16
Notes:
Du Bois writer i.d. by David Porta, October 2021.
Written as a fourteen page synopsis "Fox Brother Fights Again," it had been editorially altered. It is now sixteen pages (this can be accomplished by cutting the panel counts per page; for example, one page has only 4 panels, four others only 5 each), and, while the protagonist does fight again many times in the story, his name has been changed to Eagle Talon. The title has also been changed, to "The Mission" (a mission for which Eagle Talon volunteers, and which involves his fighting many obstacles).
Du Bois identifiers mark it clearly as his, and the contents of the story tally with both the title as originally written, and the themes and contents of the other Du Bois Indian Chief episodes (the series having been created by him under the aegis of his friend and editor Oskar Lebeck, and stories for the first four or five issues, and stock, having been written by Du Bois, most of which were included in the first four issues, after which Lebeck departed Western).
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