Membership: Earth,
Little Big Horn,
Gan, Thunder
Eagle
Tribal Force
Membership: Earth,
Little Big Horn,
Gan, Thunder
Eagle
Purpose: To prevent the U.S. Government from confiscating Indian Lands
Affiliations: None known
Enemies: U.S.Government
Base of Operations: U.S.A.
First Appearance: Tribal Force #1 (Mystic Comics, 2002)
History: It is 2006, a handful of years in the future. The U.S. government is planning on confiscating the land from an Indian reservation, keen to get hold of the natural resources located there, by force if necessary. When plans are put in motion to bomb the residents out, a group of Native Americans find themselves drawn together and mystically empowered, charged with preventing this injustice. Each one is powerful individually, but together they make up Tribal Force.
Thunder Eagle appears to have been the first member of the team to gain powers. Somehow sensing the others, he sent a Thunderbird to collect Basho Yazza, incest survivor and law student, and bring her to him. While this was happening, he flew to a bar where Gabriel Medicine God had just undergone his first transformation into his alter ego. Gabriel, a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome that had left him mute all his life, had witnessed the death of his closest friend, Jesse Tall Grass, knifed to death by a racist redneck in a bar room brawl, and it seems to have been this incident that initiated his metamorphosis.
Comments: Tribal Force was created by writer Jon Proudstar and artists Ryan Huna Smith.
The members of Tribal Force are (Earth) Navajo, (Gan) Apache, (Little Big Horn) Sioux, and (Thunder Eagle) Lakota.
Earth
Identity/Class: supernaturally empowered human Occupation: Law student Affiliations: Tribal Force Enemies: U.S. government, U.S. army Known Relatives: None known Aliases: None known Base of Operations: U.S.A. First Appearance: Tribal Force #1 (Mystic Comics, 2002) Powers/Abilities: Able to create warriors out of rock, animating them to fight for her. History: Basho Yazza was a law student. Her life, while not always good (she was an incest survivor), had in no way been remarkable. That was until Adee the Thunder Bird turned up her dorm room to escort her to Pine Ridges where she would learn of her destiny. Basho did what most normal people would do. She ran. Adee however took hold of her in his talons, and then mystically transported the two of them to their destination. There Basho learned she had been chosen by mystic forces to fight the U.S. government's despoiling of Indian lands, as a member of Tribal Force. Comments: Basho is a Navajo |
Little Big Horn
Identity/Class: supernaturally empowered human Occupation: Unemployed Affiliations: Tribal Force, Jesse Tall Grass (best friend, deceased) Enemies: U.S. government, U.S. army Known Relatives: None known Aliases: None known
First Appearance: Tribal Force #1 (Mystic Comics, 2002) Powers/Abilities: Superhuman strength, four arms, very tall and with horns on his head History: Gabriel Medicine God was a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome that had left him mute since birth. He and his closest friend Jesse Tall Grass drifted through life together, sharing life and troubles. All that ended in a bar room brawl, when a racist redneck knifed Jesse to death. The trauma of his friend dying in his arms triggered a bizarre metamorphosis, and Gabriel transformed into a huge man with four arms and bull-like horns on his head. Making short work of the redneck and his friends, he was confronted almost immediately by Thunder Eagle, who recruited him into Tribal Force. Comments: Gabriel is a Sioux |
Gan
Identity/Class: supernaturally empowered human Occupation: Unknown Affiliations: Tribal Force Enemies: U.S. government, U.S. army Known Relatives: None known Aliases: None known Base of Operations: U.S.A. First Appearance: Tribal Force #1 (Mystic Comics, 2002) Powers/Abilities: Unknown - appears to wield some kind of hand-held weapons made of energy History: Unknown Comments: Gan is an Apache. Created and owned by artist Ryan Huna Smith. |
Thunder Eagle
Identity/Class: supernaturally empowered human Occupation: Unknown Affiliations: Tribal Force Enemies: U.S. government, U.S. army Known Relatives: None known Aliases: None known Base of Operations: U.S.A.
Powers/Abilities: Able to fly, some level of superhuman strength. Able to command Thunder Birds, mystic animals of great power History: Thunder Eagle seems to have been the first member of Tribal Force to gain his powers. Somehow able to sense the others, he set out to gather them into a team. Comments: Thunder Eagle is a Lakota indian. |
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Base
of Operations: U.S.A.
First
Appearance: Tribal Force #1 (Mystic Comics, 2002)