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Sat-Ok ( Polish: Sat-Okh , from Shoni Long Feather ; Stanisław Suplatowicz ( Polish: Stanisław Supłatowicz ); April 15, 1925 , Canada - July 3, 2003 , Gdansk , Poland ) - an Indianist writer who was at the origins of the Polish Indian movement ( Polski Ruch Przyjaciół Indian ), TV presenter and author of popular children's "autobiographical" stories about the Indians "Land of Salt Rocks" and "Mysterious Traces", translated into Russian.

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Birth name	Stanislav Suplatovich
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Genre	indianist
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He was awarded the "Bronze Cross of Merit" (1951) for participating in the raising of ships flooded by the Nazis.

Suplatovich achieved his greatest fame in Poland, becoming "number one Indian" for the Polish youth and anticipating the boom of interest in the Indian theme in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. In the 1970s, Polish television entrusted him with the role of the host of the morning program “On the Military Trail”. Sat-Ok sat near a real tipi and, smoking a pipe of the world, told the young Poles about the customs of the Indians.

Before the start of World War II, he went with his mother to Poland (various sources incorrectly indicated the year of return: 1937, 1938 or 1939). Worked in the mail. In 1940, both of them were allegedly arrested by the Gestapo. Sat-Ok escaped from the train going to Auschwitz and joined the partisan detachment of the Army Ludova ).

After the war, he worked as a sailor, then settled in Gdansk and got married. Since 1958, he began writing books telling about his life among the Indians. Suplatovich is presented in the story of the Soviet writer Nikolai Vnukov “Listen to the song of feathers” (1974).

In 2005, the Polish director Claudiusz Jankowski ( Polish Klaudiusz Jankowski ) made a 38-minute television film “A born warrior” ( Polish Wojownik Z Urodzenia , English. Warrior By Birth ) about the life and work of Sat Oka. The film, created to support the myth of the Indian origin of Suplatovich, consisted of an interview with Sat-Ok to the Polish television channel PVT, testimonies of his colleagues, as well as speeches by Polish Indianists and Indians from the Dakota and Blackfoot tribes.