Tex Willer LU #168: Nemilosrdni Tumak
An expedition seeks an abandoned Anasazi pueblo, but the Hopi warrior Tumak is ready to defend his ancestors’ graves. At Tasupi’s request, Tex intervenes.
In Tumak the Relentless, the English scholar Professor Lovestock meets Link Miller, who found an abandoned pueblo in a hidden valley and dug up an ornament there. Convinced that it once belonged to the Anasazi, Lovestock organises an archaeological expedition in the American Southwest.
On their way to the valley, the members of the expedition clash with a group of young Hopi men. The researchers see the pueblo as an archaeological site; for the Hopi, it is where their ancestors lie buried. Tumak is prepared to attack the expedition to protect the graves and defend his people’s right to keep intruders away. Tasupi, a Hopi shaman, calls on Tex to prevent bloodshed.
Claudio Nizzi and Fabio Civitelli build the story around a dispute over who has the right to enter the valley. As the expedition presses on, Tex has to intervene before it crosses paths with Tumak’s men again. The story concludes in the next issue, Anasazi.
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