FC0263 Land of the Totem Poles

Synopsis:
Donald takes a job as salesman without really knowing what he is supposed to sell. It is steam calliopes and his customers are penniless Indians...

Comments:
Especially from 1949 to 1951 Barks let a number of his adventure stories feature humanlike people, and this is one of them.

FC1025 Trail Tycoon

Synopsis:
Grandma Duck and Scrooge turn to the wild west 'armed' only with a sewing basket and a vault of money. Is that enough to get by in the wilderness?

Comments:
Later Barks was not allowed to use real people in his stories, but the native Indians in this story are acting very humanlike.

WDCS230 Black Wednesday

Synopsis:
Scrooge tells of a curse on Duckburg because of some bad hair tonic he once sold to the Indians up north. Donald tries to get the Indians to lift the curse.

Comments:
Again, Barks 'smuggled in' some real (but button-nosed) Indians, and he furnished them with the tribe name Chillyboots.

U$18 Land of the Pygmy Indians

Synopsis:
Scrooge longs for some peace and quiet so he buys a large, remote area to enjoy its tranquillity. But the land is inhabited...

Comments:
... by pygmy-sized and environmentally conscious Peeweegah Indians. They even speak in pentameter verses which Barks borrowed from the poet Longfellow's work.

WDCS058 'Canyon Cavemen'

Synopsis:
The Ducks fall deep down into the Grand Canyon and Donald tries to get them out against all odds.

Comments:
The odds are not exactly improving as they are caught by a tribe of unknown cave Indians of an appearance somewhat similar to our perception of prehistoric man.

DD46 Secret of Hondorica

Synopsis:
The Ducks are hired by Scrooge to trace some papers left in a crashed airplane. The busy-body Gladstone Gander tags along for the reward...

Comments:
Barks would not go down without a fight, so sporadically he continued to draw real people (Indians and others) in a few of his later stories - here from 1956.

FC0422 The Gilded Man

Synopsis:
Donald travels to British Guiana in order to track down a valuable stamp and he finds it on an undelivered letter. But it has to be delivered first...

Comments:
And again Barks persevered portraying Indians with real human features. In this story from 1952 the giant Indian known as The Gilded Man is hard to overlook...

Synopsis:
Donald takes the nephews on a business trip to South America in order to prove that he can take good care of their safety. He promptly gets lost...

Comments:
After they all fall from the waterfall Cascada el Grande in Ecuador the nephews end up rescuing Donald from several hazards including a ferocious Indian tribe.

Synopsis:
Scrooge and the Ducks travel to the Andes in pursuit of gold described in an ancient map. But the gold is still guarded!

Comments:
As it turns out, a small enclave of Inca Indians have been guarding the gold for generations, and they try their best to deter intruders using crafty traps.

U$39 A Spicy Tale

Synopsis:
Scrooge likes nutmeg tea after work but the deliveries of the special nutmeg stop. Off he goes to solve the mystery...

Comments:
Deep inside the Amazon jungle he finds the Cura de Coco Indian suppliers, who incidentally are visited by the Ducks in their capacity of tutor corpsmen to the tribe...

FC0223 Lost in the Andes

Synopsis:
Janitor Donald at The Duckburg Museum discovers that a square rock in fact is an egg. He is promptly sent out to get more...

Comments:
The Ducks wind up in the sheltered Aig Valley hidden in the mountain range of Peru. All the Indian inhabitants have small wants in life - and they even look alike...

U$44 Crown of the Mayans

Synopsis:
Scrooge wants to be a member of The Archeologists' Club but he has to make a find first. He does so at the Yucatán peninsula but two crooks intervene...

Comments:
Barks used the first part of the story to tell about the Maya Indians and their colourful lives several centuries before.

FC0223 Lost in the Andes

Synopsis:
By accident, janitor Donald at The Duckburg Museum discovers that a square rock from Peru in fact is an egg. He is promptly sent out to get more...

Comments:
On their way to Aig Valley (see above) the Ducks encounter a great many authentic looking Inca Indians.

Synopsis:
Following a traffic accident Donald and the nephews feel as they have travelled back a hundred years in time. They visit a Spanish ranchero and gold is found.

Comments:
Barks actually lived near the place where the story's Soboba Indians still reside, and he drew them in both past and present...

U$35 The Golden Nugget Boat

Synopsis:
Scrooge and Gladstone enter a contest in Alaska to find the largest gold nugget. Gladstone's luck should help him win the contest...

Comments:
At one point both contestants try to outsmart each other by dressing slightly up as Indian medicine men.

U$30 'War Paint'

Synopsis:
Gyro Gearloose is hired by a film company to invent a war paint for their native American Indians. It is supposed to make them wild. And it does!

Comments:
The actors dress up as Indians complete with war paint that makes them completely lose control!

WDCS202 'The Rainmaker Story'

Synopsis:
Donald disguises himself as a rainmaker in order to cheat some money out of Scrooge. And surprisingly the rain starts pouring - and pouring...

Comments:
Barks based the main story on a Yakima Indian tale. The tribe lives in Washington State and Barks called them Kakimaws.