Nastas (1883-1911) was a Navajo BOI informant who infiltrated Dutch's Gang in 1911. He was murdered by Dutch van der Linde's enforcer Enepay during a failed parley that same year.
Biography[]
Nastas was born on an Arizona reservation in 1883 to a Navajo family, and he received a classical English education at a boarding school. While he criticized the federal government for its frequent betrayals of the Native Americans and for its hunting the Great Plains' buffalo to near-extinction, he agreed to work as a BOI informant within Dutch's Gang at the Tall Trees reservation, as he believed that Dutch van der Linde would lead his Native American followers to destruction. In 1911, he lured Dutch to the wreck of the riverboat Serendipity, only for Dutch's gang members to turn on him and torture him, suspecting him of betraying them. The BOI agent Archer Fordham and the former outlaw John Marston rescued Nastas after a shootout with Dutch's gang, and Marston worked with Nastas to track down Van der Linde and took a liking to him, sympathizing him during his arguments with the patronizing doctor Harold MacDougal. Later, the three men went to Bearclaw Camp to parley with Dutch's gang member Enepay and several other Native outlaws, only for Enepay and his two comrades to insult the three men and draw guns due to MacDougal's patronizing attitude. When Nastas attempted to calm the situation, Enepay shot him in the head to shut him up, killing him and resulting in a shootout.
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