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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Chinook from ''Buddy Longway''
* Crie-dans-le-Vent from ''Les Pionniers du Nouveau Monde''. The series gets a fair bit of [[Fan Service]] from that character, as she is often [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021082409/http://www.abaobxl.be/catalog/images/pionniersdunouveaumonde07.jpg depicted] topless.
* The titular character of Crisse's ''Luuna''. She typically barely wears anything except for flimsy [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]], but when her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] kicks in, she loses even that much, opting for slapping on black war paint all over her body.
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* Magawisca of ''Hope Leslie''. Not only does she get to save the life of Everell [[Shout-Out|a la]] [[Inspired By|Pocahontas and John Smith]] (though nothing ever indicated that she falls for him—if anything, ''he'' might have developed feelings for ''her''), but she has a rather...[[Les Yay|close relationship]] with the titular character, [[Magical Native American|who's helping to teach her]] that despite the brutal slaughter of her family and kidnapping of her sister-to-be [[Raised by Natives|raised among the Pequods]], the ways of the [[Noble Savage]] are not wrong and in fact have much wisdom. This may be why she gets to be a heroine in her own right.
* Lampshaded and subverted in ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' when a hack writer is adapting the North American adventures of the [[Adventure Archaeologist]] protagonist, and portrays the Native American girl he slept with as a dusky young Indian maiden when she was a middle-aged widow missing two teeth and as lean as a wolf.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''Michael O'Halloran'', Douglas specifically points out that the woman who made the gorgeous basket does not fit the type: "I wish I might truthfully report an artist's Indian of the Minnehaha type"
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Pocahontas]]'': The title character of the Disney movie.
** The historical figure somewhat fit this trope in [[Real Life]], albeit not as well as in the Disney movie.
** In fact, the historical Pocahantas--real name Mataoka; "Pocahontas" is a nickname meaning "the naughty one" or "spoiled child"--was taken hostage in Jamestown in 1612 at the age of seventeen when she was on a social visit there. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130705184807/http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html She was held prisoner by the English for a year, was forcibly converted to Christianity, and was compelled to marry Englishman John Rolfe as a condition of her release]. In 1616, the Rolfes went to England, where the Virginia Company used her in a propaganda campaign to drum up support for the colony (which seemed to be fading since gold hadn't been found). And she died on March 21, 1617 at the age of 21--theories range from pneumonia to tuberculosis to smallpox to poisoning. She didn't have much ''time'' to be an Indian maiden.
* Tigerlily in Disney's ''[[Peter Pan]]''.
* Cholena in the third ''[[An American Tail]]'' movie.
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