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* Tommy's brother David Trueheart in season 4 of [[Power Rangers]] is ridiculously magical. His arrowhead even holds a [[Monster of the Week]].

* The episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' called "Bugs" featured a curse of "Death By Bug-Inflicted Murder" on the builders/residents of a housing community unwittingly built on an [[Indian Burial Ground]].

* Sherman Alexie talks about this myth a lot during his first interview on The Colbert Report. "No, I can't talk to animals. I have no Dr. Doolittle-type powers. Pocohontas couldn't talk to animals, either. But in the Disney movie, she did talk to Mel Gibson, which sort of counts."

* An ''iCarly'' example: To avoid revealing an implant that functions as a GPS, the [[Paper Thin Excuse]] is "a chip--pewa. A Chippewa Indian guide find you." It should be noted that they're in Tokyo at the time. A bit far from Minnesota.

* An episode of ''[[So Weird]]'' takes place on a reservation and includes a tale of the Coyote Spirit who helps those lost in the woods. At the end of the episode, the coyote [[Volundary Shapeshifting|turns into]] the Native American who told the story.

 

* In ''[[Deadlands]]'', Native Americans and those who have been welcomed into their tribes are the only characters eligible for Guardian Spirits or leaning rituals and favors from the spirits, at least in the American West. (Oddly enough, Native Americans who had been raised by white people could not learn these things unless they became a tribe's blood brother later in life, which makes it sound like your "[[Magical Native American]]"-ness can be revoked; as it's a function of religion, not [[In the Blood|birthright]], this is probably intentional.)

* The [[Metaplot]] for ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has Native Americans as the first to use magic properly after the Awakening, with the reasoning being that they never really left it behind in the first place.