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{{cleanup|For a page about "various Native American mythologies and Oral Tradition", there's a lot of examples from Lakota lore and not very many examples from lore from other nations. This needs to be fixed by adding more examples from other nations.}}
General Information on various Native American mythologies and [[Oral Tradition]]. Obviously, this page covers an enormous variety of different cultures, but they're grouped together here for convenience.
 
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* [[Inca Mythology]]
 
See [[Useful Notes/Pre-Columbian Civilizations|Useful Notes on Pre-Columbian Civilizations]].
 
For the [[Hollywood History]] version, see [[Magical Native American]] and [[Mayincatec]].
 
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=== Tropes commonly associated with Native mythologies include: ===▼
* [[Turtle Island]]: From the creation stories of the Lenape and the Iroquois.
 
 
▲=== {{tropelist|Tropes commonly associated with Native mythologies include: ===}}
* [[Animorphism]]: Iktomi is the most obvious, appearing in the form of a spider.
* [[Badass Native]]: At least one per mythology.
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* [[Continuity Snarl]]: No tribe's mythology has an established canon.
* [[Creation Myth]]: Done to hilarious extremes in that many cultures have multiple creation myths.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Uncegila, Uncegila, Uncegila. For those not familiar, Uncegila is a sea monster whose look can kill. Initially, the victim is [[Eye Scream|blinded]]. A day later, he [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|goes mad]]. Two days later, he's foaming at the mouth. A day after that, he dies, and [[It Got Worse|his whole family dies]]. Two orphan brothers, one of whom was blind, killed Uncegila using special arrows that never missed. After that, they were instructed to not listen to it for its first three requests and then do whatever it said from then on. In doing so, they would get whatever they asked. Every day, it came up with more complicated ceremonies, though, and [[Boring Invincible Hero|life became boring, getting whatever they wanted]], so they stopped listening to it, and it exploded.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Iktomi. Oddly, his most depraved behavior is with women.
* [[Did Godzilla Just Punch Out Cthulhu]]: Wakinyan versus Unktehi. Bonus points because the Unktehi and Uncegila have a water motif.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea Withwith Cthulhu?]]: Winkte (with the double woman) and heyoka (with the Wakinyan) do this in their visions.
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: Since plains warriors have a habit of [[Calling Your Attacks|announcing their deeds]], they tend to do this when fighting monsters too.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: While the [[Did Godzilla Just Punch Out Cthulhu|Wakinyan take out the Unktehi]], humans take out Uncegila.
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* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Lakota ideas about the four directions associate the west with lightning, north with ice, east with [[Non-Elemental|nothing]], and south with fire.
* [[Four Is Death]]: Taken literally by the Sioux, who divide life into childhood, adulthood, senescence, and the afterlife.
* [[Full -Frontal Assault]]: Atanarjuat, running from Oki.
* [[Gag Penis]]: Coyote detaches his.
** In some versions, he borrows someone else's.
* [[Genius Loci]]: Constantly. Many areas are sacred or taboo because of such.
* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: In more modern stories, people with the power to see the future tend to see white contact and do this.
* [[Hijacked Byby Jesus]]: To use a Lakota example, Wakinyan (thunder) became angels, Wohpe became the Virgin Mary, and the Pipe became Christ. Many Indians follow a mixture of tradition, Christianity, the peyote ceremony (largely Christian-based), and the Ghost Dance (which has Mormon influences).
* [[Ho Yay]]: Look up 'winkte'. Also other examples.
** Also, the plains custom of [[My Girl Is a Slut|sharing wives]]. And of friends sleeping under the same blanket. And on and on.
* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Played straight and inverted/subverted/averted.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Just using Lakota examples, Wohpe or Ptsanwin? Skan or Taku Skanskan?
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Pick a human who becomes immortal. Any.
* [[Important Haircut]]: In many cultures, hair is where memory is stored.
* [[Loin Cloth]]: Traditional male attire in climates that allow it.
* [[Magic Pants|Magic Loincloth]]: According to the Ghost Dance, when the world ends, all the Indians will grow really tall, preparing for the flood. After the Apocalypse, the survivors will shrink down to normal size, and, [[Hijacked Byby Jesus|free of shame]], remove their clothes.
* [[Magical Queer]]: Winkte. Subverted because they can't have sex with each other, just with heterosexuals, who, oddly enough, can have sex with the same gender.
* [[Mons]]: In one Lakota story, Ksa (the Lakota god of wisdom) uses a porcupine as one while Gnas (a trickster) uses a skunk. The skunk's smell is super effective! against the porcupine. Ksa loses and [[Heel Face Turn|becomes Iktomi]].
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** Raven-as-individual is sometimes associated as a sort of region-specific equivalent to Coyote in the Pacific Northwest. Make up your own mind what this actually says about said region.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Inverted by the Hopi.
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|Sasquatch]]: Known as ''Ts'emekwes'', ''Sásq’ets'' and various other names.
* [[Sea Monster]]: Unktehi, who is described as a snake with legs that can puff himself up to cause the rivers to overflow.
* [[Single Gender Race]]: The Piegan provide one for each gender.
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: A common trope on the plains, due to the emphasis on male solidarity. An aside, in a [[Five -Token Band]], you can expect that if there is an Indian, he'll be the [[Sixth Ranger]] or this.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Up, down, and the center are often considered ancillary directions in addition to the usual four. In Lakota tradition, for instance, the four directions are the sons of the wind god. His wife cheated on him with the sun and bore him a son. This son, the whirlwind and god of love, was raised by the wind god's youngest son, the south wind, and as punishment, the boy's parents cannot see him.
* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]: Ghost Dance
* [[The Force]]: Wakan as life energy which one can manipulate. Power to manipulate it is [[In the Blood]].
* [[The Great Flood]]
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Coyote, Raven, Iktomi, Rabbit
** Kokopelli's [[Popcultural Osmosis|family-friendly]] picture is the trope image. His [[Memetic Mutation|wanted poster]] reads: Charges: despoiling maidens, seducing wives, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and gambling]]. Sometimes travels with horny woman, who calls herself Kokopelli-mana. May have been involved in the bankruptcy of Pueblo Bonito in the 13th century. He has a very big... flute which is always prominently depicted in traditional artwork.
* [[Twincest]]: In one Eskimo story, the moon rapes his sister, the sun. Also [[Rape Asas Drama]].▼
* [[Turtle Island]]: The Iroquois are the [[Trope Namer]].
▲* [[Twincest]]: In one Eskimo story, the moon rapes his sister, the sun. Also [[Rape As Drama]].
* [[Vagina Dentata]]: Done literally in one Ponca myth.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Smoking as sacred? Today you'd get the American Cancer Society on your ass for even ''suggesting'' that.
* [[Villainous Incest]]: And ''how''!
* [[Vision Quest]]: [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]], but not done in the Hollywood way.
* [[Wendigo]]: The Wendigo. May be an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* [[Word of Dante]]: Between New Agers and anthropologists, there are a lot of Dantes out there.
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=== Other Tropes which may be found in various stories include: ===
 
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Common to any origin tales.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]: Are you a plains Indian male with a traditional haircut? This is you.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]
* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: The "matriarchal" Sioux when complete matriarchy doesn't exist.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: The [[Origin Story]] of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower_National_Monument:Devils Tower National Monument|Devil's Tower]] in Wyoming involves one or more gigantic bears trying to kill frightened children and the Creator raising the tower up under the kids to save them.
* [[Fan Service]]: A lot of it, from [[Walking Shirtless Scene]] to [[Zettai Ryouiki]]--all [[Always Male|male]].
* [[Gag Penis]]: Coyote attempts to molest a woman by extending his phallus all the way through a gopher warren and up her skirt.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Depending on culture area, this can range from wearing a shirt all the time except under the blanket to [[Shirtless Scene]] to [[Walking Shirtless Scene]] to total nudity.
* [[Shotacon]]: A Pawnee marriage custom: At puberty, a boy marries his mother's brother's wife. His co-husband teaches him how to be a man, while his wife teaches him about sex.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The Ghost Dance is a [[Shout -Out]] to the Bible.
* [[Take That]]: The Ghost Dance apocalypse has a pretty bad ending for white people. And the Indians who support them.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Many tribes call themselves the People and refer to others as pests.
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