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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9808811, member: 10944"]ah yeh, this is what I was referencing above. The later ones mentioned are pretty prevalent. Particularly since I’m in that general area of the country. The war bonnet wearing plains Indian/Sioux type stereotype became what most whites folks thought of when they thought of an Indian. Seems like in the earlier 20th century you could buy just about anything with a depiction of a war bonnet wearing Indian on it. Particularly if you were at a native related tourist attraction. For example I’ve seen endless Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts) souvenirs depicting a generic plains Indian, sometimes on horseback sometimes not. Lots of the later root clubs have one of those faces carved into them. I was actually going to share this a week or two ago when I was watching it but here is an appropriate place to do so. A documentary on the Wabanaki people and their “modern” life. Lots of basket talk in the beginning. [MEDIA=youtube]4VA77i3uOkc[/MEDIA] There is actually a pretty drcent chance that I may have Wabanaki blood on one or both sides of my family tree. thanks for the excerpt.[/QUOTE]