"Indian figures for Battle of Steptoe Butte" Topic

Just curious.

Who makes the best American Indian Figures these days.

Looking for Nez Pierce, Spokane, Palouse, Coeur d'Alene, Yakima type Indians in 25mm or 28mm.

Closest I have found has been Foundry's Blackfeet but even then it is a sort of close enough, not that most people ever see anything but "indian".

The figs do look nice painted up though.

My problem is that the 'real' Indians would likely be looking at this game and they would know -- at least I think they would know.

mjc

This is Steptoe Butte in The Coeur d'Alene War, 1858, right?

That is a tough one – Pacific West coast tribes

Looking at images of the Spokane

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I wonder if some of the Commanche figures from the 500 Nations might work

conquestminiatures.com

That being said, the Pacific Coast tribes were not big on a lot of the headgear the Plains tribes wore – I think some a Metis-type figure would work, but there are precious few of them out except for the few packs made by RAFM – I would agree that the Foundry Cherokee are probably the closest I can think of

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The bands in question, went Buffalo out on the great plains and seems to get along well with the Crows. Hair styles very similar to the Crow, but bead work had much more floral designs.