History Main / MagicalNativeAmerican

* The Shaman Fight in ''Manga/ShamanKing'' is run by a Native American tribe called Patch.

* Averted ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''. Spotted Horse brags that he is ImmuneToBullets because [[CoveredInScars he's survived being shot so many times]]. Turns out he ''can'' be killed--he just [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow doesn't go down easily]].

* ''Film/TheMissing'' has good and bad types of this. One of the heroes, Samuel, who is white, was accepted into Chircahua culture and became this in a sort as well.

* ''Film/Creepshow2'' has "Old Chief Wood'nhead," a statue of an Indian chief standing outside Spruce's General Store...until Ben Whitemoon gives the Spruces a satchel of jewelry donated by the Native American families in the area to serve as collateral for their debts. Then it's possessed by the spirit of an ancient Native American warrior. The chief goes on the hunt after Sam Whitemoon and his friends [[spoiler:kill the Spruces and steal the satchel]].

* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' had the brother Francis stuck in Alaska with no purpose in his life. He turns to a totem pole that his buddies stole to give him a vision and guidance to his life. He is unable to do so when the original owner turns up and reclaims the pole. Francis begs him to reveal the magic of the totem, to his annoyance.

* Subverted in the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Deer Woman". While a Native American working at a local NativeAmericanCasino is able to supply some information about the titular legend, he makes it clear that he doesn't believe in it and thinks it's stupid.

** Chakotay of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is an [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]] example complete with a mystical tattoo and vision quests that seemed to do the trick when the [[AppliedPhlebotinum navigational deflected transponder]] [[{{Technobabble}} isolinear emmitter]] broke down. One episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E9Tattoo Tattoo]]", reveals that aliens had long ago visited Earth and inspired the creation of the culture and traditions of Chakotay's tribe. Subverted in later seasons, when Chakotay speaks about his culture in a more matter-of-fact way, and is knowledgeable in several human cultures due to being an amateur anthropologist.[[note]]Some of this is because the creators of the show were working with supposed Cherokee consultant Jamake Highwater... who is now widely known to be a fraud who's real name was Jackie Marks and it's doubtful he had any Cherokee ancestry at all and was making his "expertise" up out of thin air. This was actually suspected by investigative journalists as early as the mid 1980s but even after his death in 2001 obituaries in some newspapers were still claiming his fake identity and background as true.[[/note]]

** In ''ComicBook/{{Champions|2016}}'', Amka Aliyak / Snowguard is introduced as a regular teen who just happens to be Inuit. Later on, she gets the power to shape-shift as a gift from Sila, the spirit of Northern Canada. So she is magical and Native American, but neither is necessarily related to the other.

-->'''Wise Elder:''' "If you are having problems with your woman, go to her pillage, and steal her corn. And she will know you are a man of courage."

** The novel and manga further flesh out his backstory: he studied aerospace engineering but couldn't find a job related to his field on TheRez. The manga also contradicts his anime backstory by making him out to be a rather violent individual who got into fights a lot which bit him hard when he got stabbed in the chest, necessitating his artificial heart. Another difference from the anime is that [[spoiler: he's not a JAM copy, but he is murdered by the JAM on the Banshee-IV aircraft because [[StarfishAliens they can perceive the mechanical parts of his body while being unaware of his flesh]]]].

* The teenage protagonist of ''Film/DeadLands'' can speak with the dead, including his WitchDoctor grandmother.

** The ''ComicBook/FreedomFightersDC'' have Black Condor in the John Trujillo version. He's a Native American man who received his powers from an ancient spider-goddess.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has Joseph Listens-to-Wind, also known as Injun Joe,[[note]]He jokingly says if one was to be politically correct, unlike his peer Ebenezer [=McCoy=], he insists on being called "Native American" Joe[[/note]] genuine Illinois medicine man (as well as a medical doctor, getting requalified every decade or so to keep up with mundane advancements), member of the White Council's Senior Council and, by extension, one of the most powerful wizards in the world. He's described as having a great sense of empathy for animals and even has a pet raccoon. He's also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld well over two (possibly three) centuries old]], so he's one who remembers the better part of their history with the White Man - and it's part of why more than one person suggests Harry learn from him, not about magic, but about dealing with anger, because he's got previous. All in all, Listens-To-Wind is probably the least strained and most badass version of this trope. Ever.

* Tonto has elements of this in ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', especially in his manner of dress and during his plot exposition. Subverted later on when John meets the rest of the Comanche, who inform him that Tonto is ''insane'' and the Native American myths that he's been reciting throughout the film are just that, simply myths. (Even so, there's something...''off'' about Tonto. He seems to know when "nature is out of balance" just from observing animal behavior. Then there's that spooky makeup on his face that makes him look like [[EnemyMime a paleolithic street mime]], and that ''never'' comes off (even when he's underwater!) until he decides to take it off.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' character Jacob Black and his fellow Quileute werewolves are all an example of this. They're apparently not true werewolves, but rather "spirit wolves," which comes from a traditional Quileute origin story about shape-shifters. Unlike vampirism, spirit-wolf-ism is hereditary.

* Discussed in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019''. Nadja asks the FiveTokenBand werewolf pack if they're Indian, referencing ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' where the wolf shifters were Quileute. They decry it as a racist portrayal. One of them ''is'' Native American, but his werewolf-ness is "not an ethnic thing". Another is Indian, in that one of his parents was from India.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From the New World'' gives us two: Natan, a quiet [[GunFu dual gun-wielding]] bad boy, and his traveling partner Shania (a literal case, as she can transform just like Yuri from the previous two games).

** Chakotay of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is an [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]] example complete with a mystical tattoo and vision quests that seemed to do the trick when the [[AppliedPhlebotinum navigational deflected transponder]] [[{{Technobabble}} isolinear emmitter]] broke down. One episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E9Tattoo Tattoo]]", reveals that aliens had long ago visited Earth and inspired the creation of the culture and traditions of Chakotay's tribe. Subverted in later seasons, when Chakotay speaks about his culture in a more matter-of-fact way, and is knowledgeable in several human cultures due to being an amateur anthropologist.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

** Parodied in the episode "Red Man's Greed" where Indians are about to buy out South Park to build a casino, and Stan has to become a ''Magical Middle Class White Guy''. Complete with VisionQuest. He ends up curing SARS with the folk medicine of the Middle Class White Man: [[SoupIsMedicine Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup]], Dayquil, and Sprite.
** The 'magic native' trope is ridiculed further in "It Hits the Fan'' where they (rightfully) assume that a Las Vegas waiter could identify a mystic Arthurian gemstone, simply by being British.
** In another episode dealing with alternative medicine, there was Chief Running Pinto and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Carlos Ramirez]]. This is an odd double-subversion. On the one hand, they're paper-thin scammers. On the other, they're really Mexicans. But of course, only Americans believe that border with Mexico always existed.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' includes Tye Longshadow, who is loosely based on the above-mentioned Apache Chief and his various {{exp|y}}ies. Here he can create a giant HardLight projection of himself, but the power actually came from [[TouchedByVorlons being abducted by aliens]]. We also meet Tye's grandfather, who is this trope PlayedForLaughs--he says a bunch of mystical stuff that sounds meaningless, but in retrospect [[NotSoPhonyPsychic pretty much describes what happens]]. Also, when he says something about [[Comicbook/BlueBeetle Jaime]] having an inner struggle [[AdaptiveArmor the Scarab]] declares that he "knows too much" and [[HeroicComedicSociopath must be destroyed]].

** ''ComicBook/TheGhostRider'': The original 1967 series was [[TheWestern a Western]], and the titular Ghost Rider's origin story involved the Native American medicine man Flaming Star, who healed Carter Slade, equipped him and named him as the ChosenOne, saying that the Great Spirit had predicted his coming. Although Slade refuses to believe there's magic involved and the series keeps some level of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, it's generally implied that Flaming Star has real powers.

** Chakotay of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is an [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]] example complete with a mystical tattoo and vision quests that seemed to do the trick when the [[AppliedPhlebotinum navigational deflected transponder]] [[TechnoBabble isolinear emmitter]] broke down. One episode revealed that aliens had long ago visited Earth and inspired the creation of the culture and traditions of Chakotay's tribe. Subverted in later seasons, when Chakotay speaks about his culture in a more matter-of-fact way, and is knowledgeable in several human cultures due to being an amateur anthropologist.