“Amazing Stories,” March, 1954. Cover art by Clarence Doore for “Call Him Savage!” by John Pollard.
“Around the 15th of March each year, folks start saying ‘Give the country back to the Indians!’ Well, that’s what we want to talk to you about. . . You know, this whole thing is utterly mad! Indians, time machines, robots, spaceships.” [Prologue]
A spaceship lands in Colorado. Then a section of the state “is suddenly cut off from the rest of the country – cut off as completely as though it never existed.” The U.S. President sends “an emissary, Mr. Quinlan, into the blacked-out section to learn the reason for this – well – this attack.” Quinlan evades an army of robots to reach the spaceship. He manages to meet with the being in charge – a tall, slim Indian wearing buckskin breeches and a Sioux warbonnet.
“I am Lo-as-ro, War Chief of the Karnesh.”
Lo-as-ro’s world was a planet revolving about one of the stars in the Big Dipper. It was peopled with only one race, the Orbiwah, who lived much as the Indians in America did before the arrival of the white man. Recently spaceships from another planet in the same solar system had landed in Orbiwah world. These newcomers were friendly, had no thought of conquest, and possessed a science and culture of amazing proportions.
From them, the Orbiwah learned of a planet on which were men of their own kind. Lo-as-ro, fired by the thought of establishing contact with people like himself, had borrowed spaceships manned by robots and crossed the void to Earth. For weeks, they had hovered in Earth’s atmosphere, at first saddened, then angered, by the fate meted out to the Indians. . . Lo-as-ro decided to wrest the land from the white man and hand it over to the downtrodden remnants of a once-powerful race. . . [Excerpts from the story]
[Note: The story is now available as a free download at Project Gutenberg]
“Amazing Stories,” March, 1954. Cover art by Clarence Doore for “Call Him Savage!” by John Pollard.
“Around the 15th of March each year, folks start saying ‘Give the country back to the Indians!’ Well, that’s what we want to talk to you about. . . You know, this whole thing is utterly mad! Indians, time machines, robots, spaceships.” [Prologue]
A spaceship lands in Colorado. Then a section of the state “is suddenly cut off from the rest of the country – cut off as completely as though it never existed.” The U.S. President sends “an emissary, Mr. Quinlan, into the blacked-out section to learn the reason for this – well – this attack.” Quinlan evades an army of robots to reach the spaceship. He manages to meet with the being in charge – a tall, slim Indian wearing buckskin breeches and a Sioux warbonnet.
“I am Lo-as-ro, War Chief of the Karnesh.”
Lo-as-ro’s world was a planet revolving about one of the stars in the Big Dipper. It was peopled with only one race, the Orbiwah, who lived much as the Indians in America did before the arrival of the white man. Recently spaceships from another planet in the same solar system had landed in Orbiwah world. These newcomers were friendly, had no thought of conquest, and possessed a science and culture of amazing proportions.
From them, the Orbiwah learned of a planet on which were men of their own kind. Lo-as-ro, fired by the thought of establishing contact with people like himself, had borrowed spaceships manned by robots and crossed the void to Earth. For weeks, they had hovered in Earth’s atmosphere, at first saddened, then angered, by the fate meted out to the Indians. . . Lo-as-ro decided to wrest the land from the white man and hand it over to the downtrodden remnants of a once-powerful race. . . [Excerpts from the story]
[Note: The story is now available as a free download at Project Gutenberg]