Related Buffalo Nickel Articles:
Since 1964 when Leonard J. Ratzman's article, "The Buffalo Nickel,
a 50-Year-Old Mystery," appeared in the Whitman Numismatic Journal
supporting Chief John Big Tree, a Seneca Indian, as one of the
three models of the obverse of James Earle Fraser's Indian Head
nickel design, numismatic writers and collectors have been misled.
Bob Van Ryzin shows that, when Fraser finally recalled the name
of the third model, he named Chief Adoeette, a Kiowa, whose name
translates as "Big Tree." He also discusses Chief Two Guns White
Calf, a Blackfoot, who, in the late 1920's and early 1930's was
thought to have been the third model as well other stories.