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_JB_ or almost a hundred years there stood 

 on various Chicago streets a colorful specimen of na- 

 tive American art. The specimen was a most lifelike 

 wooden Indian. It had been carved by a master crafts- 

 man. This unknown artisan reproduced the noble red- 

 man in a style intended to inspire respect. But local 

 Chicagoans, while admiring the art, were not awed by 

 the figure's dignified air. To them it was familiarly and 

 affectionately known only as"Big-Chief-Me-Smoke-Em." 

 Visiting Iroquois Indians, ancient enemies of the Illi- 

 nois, felt duty-bound to call on the Big Chief. Some of 

 them remembered the original, a sachem of their tribe. 

 Solemnly studying the sculptor's work, they would ex- 

 press approval of his art through nods and grunts. Then 



