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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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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 As We Know It]]: Ghost Dance
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* [[Biggus Dickus]]
* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: The "matriarchal" Sioux when complete matriarchy doesn't exist.
* [[Everything's Worse With 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.