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Published: 2017-02-26 00:58:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 9851; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 143
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That's what happens when you mess with He'heenóhká'e . She may be done with killing him but she isn't quite through with him yet-
Thanks for your comments and faves!
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- Native clothes tailored in Marvellous Designer 4, uv-mapped in UV Mapper Pro, textured in Gimp.
- Native weapons modeled in Pegasus Modeller.
- Figure setup and cloth draping in Poser Pro 2014.
- Scene setup, landscaping and rendering in Vue Xtreme 2014
- Comic page done in Gimp.
Figures used: Michael 3 and 4, Victoria 4 (Indians weightmapped and added realism morphs).
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funny - the american Indian still a reservoir for good-evil schemes...
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What O'Brien fantasized about was basically a foreshadowing of what Colorado volunteer troops would do later that year to Cheyenne women (who happened to be non-resisting noncombatants) during the Sand Creek massacre. Thus, while all those acts, evil as they arguably are, get condensed in the sadistic musings of a single character here, they are in essence anything but real history...
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If that's your impression - mission accomplished.
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Story just keeps getting better. So nice to see it told from the Native American
point of view. Found the note on Blackbird Women's knife especially interesting.
Supposed to have a few drops of Mohawk blood in me somewhere, from 300
years ago. Truly believe that Oneida Warriors helped save an ancestors life
back on August 6th, 1777 in the bitter fight at Oriska Creek. Extremely sad how
the Oneida's were treated after the Revolutionary War. Even their sacred stone
wound up on private property.
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Thanks for that interesting feedback, always great when people share such things!
Yes, when you read about the history, reflect about the stories, acquaint yourself with the landscape and develop some kind of feeling of the love the people had for their land, their often intimate, deeply spiritual connectedness to it, the eery transformation of many favorite village and camp sites of generations into bloodsoaked graveyards - when you take all that in and then think about it that the survivors weren't just completey driven from that land but that these places today often cannot even be visited by the descendants because the land wasn't just taken over by another race but then parceled up and closed off to the public as private property - that's... bitter. The land is eternal while we are all mortal. The oddity of the notion that us small mortals can claim exclusive rights over large pieces of land really gets to you when you think about it.
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Das dürfte langfristig ihre geringste Sorge sein. Das teuer gekaufte Zinnoberrot ihrer Kriegsbemalung enthält ne ganze Menge Blei...
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So you'd say "You can leave your hat on"?
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You almost inspire me to do more research on my own heritage. 
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Glad you enjoyed it! By all means, explore!
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My people (Cayuga) are spread from Ontario (where my line originated) to Oklahoma (where I live but have no connection to). It's been a nightmare of sorts just to learn what we have.
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Uprooted by Sullivan's "expedition" I guess... Displaced from Upstate NY to Oklahoma, that's really messd up...
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That was part of it, or at least some of the beginning, for the Oklahoma contingent from what I understand. My own family's extraction from Ontario to Oklahoma was more recent, the result of my maternal grandmother marrying a man from Oklahoma, eventually moving here. As a result of the whole thing we are separated from our 'roots' as it were, in Canada, and yet have no connection officially with the local Seneca-Cayuga nation. 
Crazy stuff....
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Interesting, thanks for sharing this!
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well she didn't quite complete the final coup... and paid for turning her back on an enemy... but by her expressions, I believe she,s having a lot more fun with the turn of events! Great work on the action and expressions!!
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Thank you! The coup was in fact completed upon touching him, only running over him on horseback didn't quite work.
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This is such an greatly laid out and illustrated story! Some of the pics are absolutely awesome! So much relief that she could overcome the mean bastard. You made her beautiful and managed to instill some of the typical NA sense of humor they display in tense moments.
All the images of her mounting him are out of sight!
Lookoo, I can only thank you for this extraordinary gallery you're running.
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Thank you very much! That was heartwarming and encouraging.
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Well, finally we have someone rooting for Mr. O'Brian!
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Careful of Mr O'Brian's gun! Brilliant work again!
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"by the way - your scalp looks like shit" - ROTFLOL !
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completely different question - one you might have answered elswhere (but then i cant find it)
how real is the language you are using? where did you learn it and what langauge resources do you use?
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The language I'm using is as real as I can make it. I use online resources, chiefly the excellent online Cheyeenne dictionary from the website of Chief Dull Knife College, Lame Deer, Montana, Northern Cheyenne Reservation. It contains a wealth of vocabulary and formulation examples and, most importantly, a small but very useful grammar section. The grammar is damn complicated though, and I cannot fully guarantee that I haven't made a mistake here or there. I mostly stick to simple things like present tense conjugation of verbs or imperatives. Everyday language isn't that complicated. If you know how to conjugate verb stems and connect them with words like "by the way", "and", "or", "but", you can get pretty far.
Cheyenne has some charming qualities which mirror social philosophies like self-deprecation. For instance, you can say "he loves her" (e-meot-o'o), you can also say "I love her" (Na-meot-o'o), but you can't say "I love you" in Cheyenne. When a first person meets a second person in the same place, the first person will always make room for the second person at the start of the sentence. Thus, it's "you- love- by me" (Ne-meot-atse).
By the way, Cheyenne is the wet dream of any feminist or gender streamlining activist. There is no difference between male or female pronouns. That took me a while to figure out. I had gotten frustrated that the vocabulary examples were always like "he killed him" while I wanted to know what "she killed him" means. Well, it's exactly the same.
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many thanks for the explanation! sounds like Cheyenne is a really interesting language (and it might be a good idea to put this somewhere where everyone can read it - your profile page perhaps?)
so if i read this with jst my regular german pronouciation i should be close to the way it is supposed to sound ...
as for the writing - seems Cheyenne is even worse then german when it come to glueing words together to get really long ones - Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän ... 8)
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It is definitely worse. They have no articles, only prefixes and suffixes and they sometimes put a whole sentence into one word. I suppose, though, this is somewhat of an unnecessary cruelty as Cheyenne has been, until quite recently, been a non-written language. Could have been done differently, I suppose.
Good idea, I should put this language stuff onto my profile page.
Cheyenne vowels don't sound anglo-saxon at all, flatline vowels only, just like in German, both open and closed vowels like in Bett or Beet. . Lots of "ts", and every "x" is in fact a "ch" like in "Achtung". Sometimes there are diphtongs that sound French.
One pretty mean feature of Cheyenne are the voiceless vowels. A vowel at the end of a word is always voiceless, and when you apply some grammar to words, vowels also become voiceless in the middle of words. That makes the words often much shorter to pronounce than they look on paper but a pain in the neck to learn. I have no clue how trappers and "squaw men" would have learned that language without written materials, must have been really difficult.
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whooh .. this is a bit complicated ..
one wobnders what went on in the minds of the people creating the the wrting system ..
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I think it's pretty logical, it's the underlying language that has its complexities. For instance, when water (mahpe) sounds like "mahp". When you then add the sufix for "in the" making it "mâpeva", everything but the "p" from the wordstem dissapears in voicelessnes and it sounds like "peff". Imagine how confusing that must be if you don't even see it in writing.
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if i would have to learn it form listenng only, i would probably wonder if the Cheyenne are just making it all up on the spot to confuse me ..
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LOL, and yet, white folks learned it. Wiliam Bent made a trade empire, married the medicine man's daughter in the 1830s. Wilhelm Greiffenstein /Wiliam Griffenstein hailed from Germany, married a Cheyenne woman and became a trader as well, even travelled back to Germany to settle an inheritance in Germany, then sailed back to America in order to negotiate hostage releases between whites and Cheyennes. I guess learning that stuff is not for dumb people.
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total immersion probalby helps -
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