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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 1018017, member: 6229&quot;]Is that a real Indian on the obverse of the Buffalo Nickels struck from 1913 &#039;til 1938?&nbsp; Who is it?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-3949.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-3949.html" rel="nofollow">Click here for coinpage.com photo</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>James Earl Fraser designed the nickel.&nbsp; Being an artisan of the highest order, he felt that the task of designing the new Nickel required him to place a figure on the coin&#039;s obverse that would be representative of the entire Native-American people. You know the world reknown <b><i>Trail of Tears</i></b> sculpture was created by Fraser?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He spent weeks on the new Nickel project to create the perfect representation which is a composite portrait of three separate Native-American Indian chiefs:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<b>Two Moons of the Cheyenne</b>,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://webspace.webring.com/people/cc/cheyenne_language/twomoons.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://webspace.webring.com/people/cc/cheyenne_language/twomoons.htm" rel="nofollow">Click for photo</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>John Big Tree of the Seneca:</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.b-westerns.com/native8.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.b-westerns.com/native8.htm" rel="nofollow">Click for Seneca Nation&#039;s Chief John Big Tree&#039;s photo</a> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JEFEndOfTheTrail.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JEFEndOfTheTrail.jpg" rel="nofollow">Click for wikipedia photo of Fraser&#039;s End of the Trail Statue modeled by Chief John Big Tree</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>and</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Iron Hail (a.k.a. Iron Tail) of the Souix Nation (Lakota Tribe).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanie-campos/2299723008/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanie-campos/2299723008/" rel="nofollow">Click for Flickr photo</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Did you know?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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