The Big Chief tablet was a popular writing notebook for several generations of young children in the United States. It utilized newsprint paper and featured widely spaced lines, easier to write in for those learning to write. Its prominence, though, was the cover's representation of a native American in full headdress, hence "Big Chief."
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