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1. 

   ejcapulet said, 12 days ago

   They probably didn’t bother to invent writing either.

2. 

   randayn said, 12 days ago

   Duh, They were a tribe without a name.

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   Potrzebie said, 12 days ago

   Shut up sendup! This is not about politics!

   Ok, so let’s see who is the first poster to offer some dissertation on the tribe with no name.

4. 

   js305 said, 12 days ago

   Wanna bet it’s not about politics??? Sendup is right I just know it. It may not be about dems or reps but maybe congress. Look what they did last night while we were watching football.

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   grazer said, 12 days ago

   The descendents of this tribe live on today, but they’ve since come out of hiding and into the open.
   We now know them as “Televangalists”.

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   palos said, 12 days ago

   I’m betting the tribe with no name rode horses with no name also. Only the horses were later memorialized in song.

   Might that be Wiley sitting at the computer? He seems to know what is going to happen next.

7. 

   Wiley said, 12 days ago

   Let me put a stop to this before it gets started…

   IT’S NOT ABOUT POLITICS!!!!

   This is a fable, an adventure story, pure and simple. There is nothing “between the lines” to read into it, no hidden agenda, no opinion being put forth.

8. 

   locoboilerguy said, 12 days ago

   And I was having such a good time reading the comments and speculations about politics.

9. 

   glennday said, 12 days ago

   I don’t know, Wiley. Are you sure it’s not about politics? Everything else in our society seems to be, whether we want it to be or not.

10. 

    DBjorn said, 12 days ago

    Go Wiley, go Wiley! and Go Homer! Go Homer!

    I’m still chucklin’ about the “riding horses with no names” comment. LOL

11. 

    elbeck said, 12 days ago

    Hey, Wiley duly posted his legal disclaimer and says its not about politics. I still think it’s about bankers. How does everyone vote: politics, or bankers?

12. 

    Doctor Toon said, 12 days ago

    Wiley - They never learn.
    I’m beginning to suspect the need to interject politics into everything for some people may be a brain disorder.
    Maybe there’s a medication.

13. 

    elbeck said, 12 days ago

    Doctor Toon - My wife and I are sitting here laughing our butts off at your last comment.

14. 

    tcolkett said, 12 days ago

    Time will tell. Wait for it….wait…wait..

15. 

    Justice22 said, 12 days ago

    Of course there is no history of this tribe because they had no name. They could not act nor think for themselves. Eventually a thinker will evolve in the tribe and name them “Pa’dee wak”.

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    Ji2m said, 12 days ago

    Au contraire, Potrzebie, taking hard earned assets by force or threat of force from others sounds like a fairly good metaphor for politicians in general, Democrats in particular. Oh, and the sneak attacks are comparable to last night’s vote to move toward a socialized healthcare system…

    So sendup, while we still have free speech, use it…

    Wiley, meaning in art is derived from the artist and the viewer. So, if there are some of us who see parallels to our current political environment, then… IT IS ABOUT POLITICS…

17. 

    alife said, 12 days ago

    I remember F-Troop the The Hekawi tribe!! OR “Where the heck are we?” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Troop

18. 

    aerwalt said, 12 days ago

    Wiley, you need anti-troll for your site.

    No, I don’t know where to get it. Sorry.

19. 

    Strodgers said, 12 days ago

    I take Wiley at his word. Because one sees this or that doesn’t mean the Artist means anything but a story. An example is “Lord of The Rings”, people have been taking that out of context too, Tolkien just wanted to write an British myth.
    Wiley is writing a myth if you wish.

20. 

    DevXIII said, 12 days ago

    Yeah, how could there be a tribe if there’s no record of it?

21. 

    Dry said, 12 days ago

    **THANK YOU WILEY!!!

22. 

    dfrechet said, 12 days ago

    Sounds like Congress, not just democrats.

23. 

    OMC-USNR said, 12 days ago

    Well, it’s Sunday & Homer is in Heaven, so it MUST be about religion!

24. 

    Lewreader said, 12 days ago

    This is not about Congress the tribe with no brain.

25. 

    kirbey said, 12 days ago

    I just can’t wait for next Sunday … patience Duncan and me too !

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    Here we are again with the continuing fable of Homer as told to a mythological divine being.

    If you literally translate the names of many of the tribes in the Northern Hemisphere into English, the translated word will be “People.”

    The name Tsa-la-gi (pronounced as tsa-law-ghee and transliterated as “Cherokee”) was given to my ancestral tribe by outside tribes. But an individual member of the tribe is a yv-wi-ya (pronounced yunh-wee-yaw).

    When more than one tribal member is present, adding the prefix of ani- (ah-nee) to the word makes it plural in number.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    Since Homer is such an unrepentant liar, he wouldn’t be telling such a story in heaven.

    When I was a graduate theology student and lived in an undergraduate dorm (they didn’t have housing for graduate level students), one of the guys on the wing floor where I stayed had the given middle name of “Rock,” which he went by. No matter what another guy told about his experiences, Rock would attempt to top that.

    One day, when Rock was not in the dorm, Barry walked around in the wing carrying a hand puppet which he called “Stone.”

28. 

    the GhostPony said, 12 days ago

    I’m enjoying these Sunday strips the best. Thanks Wiley.

    And…

    You party poopers really need to lighten up. It’s a freakin’ cartoon for crying out loud!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    By the way, the “ts” of “tsa” can be pronounced as “ch” or like a “j.” My name in Cherokee is “Tsowa” and the “a” of the “wa” syllable is not pronounced.

30. 

    JFri said, 12 days ago

    The BT Tribe??

31. 

    openminded said, 12 days ago

    No No No- the BS tribe JFRI

32. 

    AKHenderson said, 12 days ago

    Maybe this is how the Mi’kmaq migrated to Prince Edward Island.

    I wonder if Cap’n Eddie ever met their descendants…

33. 

    Nelly55 said, 12 days ago

    nice drawing style and great depiction of that viking ship!

    love the story too

    thanx Wiley

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    MatureCanadian said, 12 days ago

    Thank you Wiley! No politics, just good old fashioned myth! Gotta love it!

    Can’t wait for next Sunday. How is Homer going to fix the sail? How is he going to convince the tribe to trust him and his funny looking boat? All these and other questions await your pen Wiley.

35. 

    DirtyDragon said, 12 days ago

    Sshh, Wiley, don’t cause a fuss. I’ll have your politics. I love it. I’m having politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, baked beans, politics, politics, politics and politics!

36. 

    DevXIII said, 12 days ago

    @DD: Baked Beans are off..

37. 

    pbarnrob said, 12 days ago

    “It’s not got much Spam in it!”

38. 

    bmonk said, 12 days ago

    Many early tribes didn’t really have names. They were “the People” or “Us”. Everybody else, all those not-fully-real-people, they had names…

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 12 days ago

    The way that Wiley Miller draws and writes Homer’s tall tale proves that he could do a very good based on history comic strip or an illustrated historical novel like I read in the Classics comic books.

    Robert Conley, whose earlier works were mostly paperback Western novels, has published a “Real People” (“ani-yv-ni-wa”) historical novel series about the Cherokees. It was authorized by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Some of Conley’s sources are from previously published books; but, a lot of events are based on oral tradition stories verified by more than one living Cherokee.

40. 

    spasticjack said, 12 days ago

    It may be man things, but interesting is not one of them.

41. 

    Josh 1360 said, 12 days ago

    After the second coming, we won’t have to worry about dealing with politics anymore….or anything else that’s deemed “politically correct”.

42. 

    BC13 said, 12 days ago

    THANK YOU, WILEY!!!

    That being said, there are those who will still force their political views, in spite of your comment. Sigh!

    Dr. Toon
    I loved your comment!

43. 

    Dora Dingle said, 12 days ago

    That’s right, back off, you carlitains! If this was “Ordinary Basil”, you said it would deal with politics also!

44. 

    Ushindi said, 12 days ago

    Funny - in today’s “Dilbert”, Dilbert is telling another person “Apparently you have a social disorder that compels you to insert irrelevant stories and trite observations…”

    Seems a rather appropriate observation (for “Tsowa” , anyway).

45. 

    Tink 1300 said, 12 days ago

    Morons, like Wiley posted, this is a fable, an adventure story, it has to nothing to with politics, to which I agree with my cousin also that soon this condemnation that’s called “politics” will soon cease to exist!

46. 

    kfaatz925 said, 11 days ago

    Politics or not, I look forward to the next installment. Beautiful artwork also!

47. 

    vasgar1 said, 11 days ago

    Thanks Wiley, guys lighten the heck up or go put your stupid statements on State of the Union or Doonesbury where they belong and let us laugh without you. Loving the story Wiley, can’t wait to see how it ends.

48. 

    Ronshua said, 11 days ago

    Josh …Read it again for yourself , and prepare for martyr hood . The coming Rapture is a cart-load .

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

    Start at “Doctrinal history” no one needs to read any move .

    http://www.fulfilledcg.com/

49. 

    JanCinVV said, 11 days ago

    Never ceases to amaze me how people like Ronshua take a non-christian’s word for what christianity is all about and then touts it like’s its gospel (pun intended). If you pick at anything hard enough, you can find perceived flaws which may or may not necessarily really be there.

50. 

    Ronshua said, 10 days ago

    Luk 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.