Before the Buffalo Nickel was flipped, polished, or tucked into museum glass, it bore the face of resilience. Native Warriors is a fierce opening to the Nickel Souls series — a bone-carved reckoning with the original defenders of the land. These fully skeletal portraits are not ghosts but guardians, their hollow gazes set like stone, their feathers and braids rendered with reverence. This volume doesn’t depict myth. It remembers men who moved through smoke and silence, now stilled only in coin — their strength pressed into metal, their stories unsilenced.

With over 30 original black-and-white engravings and poetic reflections, this is more than an art book. It’s testimony. Each coin design — from “The Forgotten Chief” to “The Final Treaty” — speaks in defiant detail, turning currency into confrontation. The skulls here do not symbolize death but what endures beyond it. For collectors, historians, and those drawn to art with purpose, Native Warriors offers a powerful return to roots — a ledger of survival carved one line at a time.