Oumpah-pah

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Oumpah Pah le Peau-Rouge (“Umpah-pah the Redskin”) is the name of an illustrated series of comic books created in 1958 by Albert Uderzo (illustrations) and René Goscinny (script), first appearing in the weekly Journal de Tintin. The albums were published by Dargaud starting from 1961 before control was reassumed in 1995 by Albert-René.

The series features the adventures of Umpah-pah, a Native American of the Shavashavas, and his bewigged friend, the French officer Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée, whom Umpah-pah calls Double-scalp ("Double Scalp"). The series are set in the eighteenth century, during the age of French colonization in America. Umpah-pah is as fast as an arrow and is enamored of pemmican. He is an honest and trustworthy brave whose simple heroism is comparable to that of the more famous Asterix, whom Uderzo and Goscinny also created. Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée, whom the Shavashavas initially hold as a prisoner, subsequently serves as a mediator between the Europeans and the Native Americans, and also serves as an ally against the tribe known as the Pieds-Plats, the sworn enemies of the Shavashavas.