Content note: Stylised depictions of Native American figures (a warrior with a raised tomahawk, a figure beside a smoke signal) in war-bond art by students of a federal Indian school, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
More tomahawks for our united warriors. Buy war bonds
Treasury sheet reproducing three student war-bond posters to be cut apart: a figure beside a smoke signal ('Buy War Bonds!'), a figure with a raised tomahawk beside P-40 aircraft ('More Tomahawks for Our United Warriors'), and children buying stamps at an adobe post office. Techniques are transfer (a traditional warrior image attached to modern aircraft and bonds) and plain-folks (ordinary children buying stamps).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Savings Staff, Education Section (posters by students of the U.S. Indian School, Santa Fe)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Savings Staff. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1099 (NAID 514626).
Text on the object
All over the country Americans still in school are making posters that tell how they feel about the war, and how they want others to feel. In a way, they all feel alike—as the posters show. All the poster-makers urge us to save, to conserve, to work with whatever talents we have at the wartime jobs that come to hand—as they themselves are doing through their art. Some of these student poster-makers say these things differently because they see America and the war with a special vision. The three posters on this page were made by boys who see America as the home their people have always had. They share it with us now and they see the war as their fight—to be fought with their ancient courage and cunning, but by modern methods. The larger poster, by Ben Quintana, is especially interesting because it shows what Indian children actually must do to help. It describes better than words what it is like to ride for miles over the bright, bare cactus-studded land and buy War Stamps at a desert post office. Ben Quintana (Ha-a-Tee), and Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa) who painted the smoke-signal poster, and Charles Presbetonequa who painted the "Tomahawk" poster are all students at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. THESE POSTERS HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE EDUCATION SECTION, WAR SAVINGS STAFF, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THROUGH THE STATE WAR SAVINGS OFFICES. TO DISPLAY, CUT THEM APART AS INDICATED BY THE DOTTED LINES. TRIM [poster 1:] BUY WAR BONDS! [signature: Eah-Ha-Wa] [poster 2:] MORE TOMAHAWKS for OUR UNITED WARRIORS P-40 Buy WAR BONDS now! [poster 3, in the picture: a sign reading] I Need your Help! BUY WAR BONDS STAMPS; POST OFFICE; BUY HERE [signature: Ha'-a-tee, Ben] [faint mirrored show-through of "WAR BONDS" from the reverse side, upper centre of the lower panel] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—489383, followed by a short code, illegible]
