This is a page about Amerinds*. It is in fact quite amazing to learn how often Carl Barks actually drew Indians in his duck stories. Sometimes they merely served as background, but many times they played active parts in the plots. Not only that, he introduced us to a broad variety of them - genuine ones such as Incas, invented ones such as Peewees, and fake ones such as the ducks in various disguises. This page gives you examples - only one from the individual stories - of Barks' great versatility when it came to portraying many different types of Amerinds.

* In its basic form the term Amerind is a contraction of American Indian and has special reference to the indigenous native American peoples of the USA and Canada, but in anthropological context the term also applies to native peoples of Central and South America.

REAL AMERINDS (Characters from real tribes or cultures but graphically portrayed in the comic books' slightly caricatured form.)
FC0223 Lost in the Andes Inca	FC0256 Luck of the North Inuits (also known as Eskimos)	U$27 The Money Champ Jivaros
U$44 Crown of the Mayans Maya	WDCS202 'The Rainmaker Story' Yakima (Kakimaw in Barks' version)	FC0328 In Old California! Soboba

INVENTED AMERINDS (Barks' versions of plausible Amerinds)
U$18 Land of the Pygmy Indians	U$52 The Great Wig Mystery	FC0062 Mystery of the Swamp
U$26 Prize of Pizarro		DD54 Forbidden Valley
DD46 Secret of Hondorica	FC0422 The Gilded Man	WDCS058 'Canyon Cavemen'
WDCS230 Black Wednesday	WDCS167 'Salmon Contest'	FC0328 In Old California!
FC0263 Land of the Totem Poles	U$39 A Spicy Tale
FC0223 Lost in the Andes	WDCS228 'The Watchful Parent'	WDCS144 'The Billion Dollar Spree'

FAKE AMERINDS (Characters dressing up as Amerinds)
WDCS234 Riding the Pony Express	FC1025 Trail Tycoon	U$30 'War Paint'
WDCS060 'The Radar Tracker'	U$35 The Golden Nugget boat	WDCS202 'The Weather Hole'