Magical Native American is currently limited to Native Americans, as the title indicates. However, it is also used to refer to indigenous peoples in other parts of the world.
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- UsefulNotes.Australian Aborigines: Foreign-written portrayals of Australia tend to consider them interchangeable with the standard Magical Native American, which some Australian works are also prone to.
- Film.Until The End Of The World: the Australian Aboriginals in Part III.
- Film.Quigley Down Under: As part of the setting-shifted-Western premise, a tribe of Aborigines fill this role.
- Film.The Dead Lands: Hongi can speak to the dead, and apparently The Warrior's wives can as well. Subverted as not only are Māori not Native Americans (though they fill the same societal role as an indigenous people), everyone in the movie is Māori.
- Characters.Final Fantasy VII Playable Characters: Her Cetra heritage gives her an innate connection to the planet and makes her more inclined to use magic than normal humans. In addition, her people used to be wandering nomads seeking "the Promised Land".
- Characters.The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind: They give off this vibe, particularly in the way they dress.
- ComicBook.Middlewest: A tribe analogous to them venerates animal spirits and sends them as guides.
- UsefulNotes.Australian Aborigines: In season 2 of Pacific Rim: The Black the "Bunyip-Man" (no real name given) is all but outright stated to be Aboriginal. He fulfills a Magical Native American-like narrative niche as being closer to nature and able to tame the Kaju, and then he's proven wrong and dies horribly. He's also voiced by a white voice actor.
- Rocket Girls: Magical Native Islander: Matsuri can charm fishes to the shore by singing to them, uses the Jedi Mind Trick on a guard and survives 38 Kg. at 10G on her torso during a re-entry without even a bruised rib.
- TheElderScrolls.Tropes D: The Skaal are a Noble Savage tribe related to the Nords, residing on the island of Solstheim. They worship the All-Maker (theorized to be an aspect of Anu) and seek to live In Harmony with Nature. They have much in common culturally with various Native American and Inuit tribes, including their speech patterns. Their religion and magic have elements of shamanism and druidism, unique among the other religions and magical practices of Tamriel.
- UsefulNotes.Sydney: For a period in the late '80s the X-Men went further underground than usual and operated out of a hidden base in the outback (requisitioned from a band of cyborg Road Warrior rejects) with the aid of a mysterious Magical Indigenous Australian teleporter. This was one of the few places where they mixed up both Sydney and the outback. (Odd, considering Chris Claremont has been to Sydney.)
- Frozen II: Subverted. Anna and Elsa ask if the indigenous Northuldranote are magic, but their father emphasizes that they are regular people who've simply adapted to living in a magical land. The mystical qualities of nature are an important part of their spirituality, but none of them have any kind of special powers.
- "Crocodile" Dundee: Parodied in all three of the films, which depicted (relatively) accurate Australian aborigines who have assimilated into "white" culture without losing their own cultural trappings. In the first film Sue asks to take a picture of Mick's aboriginal friend and he says she cannot, which she believes stems from his belief that the camera will steal his soul, but he just points out that she forgot to take the lenscap off. He then checks his rolex watch and hurries on his way, albeit with a few stumbles in the dark as he grumbles how he hates being in the bush. The same character shows up again in the first sequel and intentionally plays the image up in order to intimidate the henchmen of two Columbian thugs. In the third film, when Mick is picking up his son from school he runs into an aboriginal man in full traditional garb.Aborigine: Got outta that tree alright, eh?
Mick Dundee: Now how could you possibly know about that already?
Aborigine: My people have ways of talking that no white man can understand!
{ringing}
Aborigine (pulls out cellphone): Yeah? - Marvel Universe: Australian Aborigines in the Marvel U are similarly portrayed. A 'magical bullroarer' and the ability to teleport through Dream Time are the powers of two completely separate characters — Talisman (no relation to Elizabeth Twoyoungmen, above) from Contest of Champions and Gateway from X-Men''.
- SCPFoundation.Tropes E To M: SCP-992 ("Gaia's Emissary")
. SCP-992 is a male Australian Aborigine who claims to be 57-71 years old but hasn't aged in the 65 years that he's been contained by the Foundation. He appears to be able to control the weather and talk to plants. - The Wild Thornberrys: The shaman who gave Eliza her gift in the first place comes from a tribe of Magical Nigerians.
- The Snow Queen (1995): Freda is a Sami who trains flying reindeer.
- Positive Discrimination: You hear this anytime you hear someone invoke how smart Asians are, or how Closer to Earth women are, or how the shaman's teachings are so ethical and enlightened as compared to anything else, or how the emotionally attuned gay man solved all his friends' relationship problems. Written ambiguously
- Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami: Himeka and family... And probably her village as well if it if it hadn't been massacred.
- The Lord of the Rings - Free Men: The fantasy equivalent of it. Ghân and his people are a very tribalistic and technologically primitive people who nonetheless know more about nature and magic than all of Rohan and Gondor combined.
- Characters.Survivor South Pacific: Jokes about the "great spirits of her past" imparting wisdom on her during the game.
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- Dimension 20 The Unsleeping City: Averted, surprisingly. While yes, JJ does have magical powers, it has absolutely nothing to do with his Native American ancestry but rather his exploration into quantum physics and his technomagical expertise.
- Earth Twenty Seven The Organized Crime Of Gotham: He once belonged to a tribe that worshipped Barbatos as a deity, until his tribe realized what he was and sealed him. Blackfire is the only one that remained loyal.
- Fairy Tail – Other Fairy Tail Members: He has the appearance of one, and he draws power from the spirits of animals.
- Characters.Fate Moon White: Aileen is Apache/Irish. She's also a Shaman. Do NOT call her a magus.
- Marvel Universe Avengers: Downplayed somewhat, as her Catholic upbringing is more often brought up in reference to her heritage.
- Pocahontas: Shows shades of this in his ability to conjure up images in smoke. He first conjures the form of a rabbit to entertain some kids during "Steady as the Beating Drum," then does the same to show the tribe what he sees about the British invaders.
- The Redeemer: The ratskins, down to having a shaman, wearing animal headdresses, and calling their warriors "braves".
- Peace Day Never Came: Or, mutated Native American. A member from a tribe of them is captured by Venom sword, found to be exceptionally tall and strong from his mutations. Code Talker is intrigued with him.
- Man of the House (1995): Played for Laughs as Chief Red Crow, an actual Native American chief, teaches the Indian Guides to do a Rain Dance, jokingly claiming credit for all the rain in Seattle.
- Man-Thing: Pete Horn, who, when his prayers fail to stop Man-Thing, attempts to appease it by sacrificing himself.
- Magical Native American: Subverted with Kicking Wing
- Mystery Men: The Sphinx is a complicated, rather parodic example. He's played by a Native actor, but his powers, code name, and costume are not Native themed, he works at a Mexican restaurant and can be summoned by ordering the right combo meal, and his "wise" advice is basically nonsense.
- Thunderheart:
- "Grandpa" Sam Reaches fits the trope, but the movie earns points by presenting a brutally unromanticized view of reservation life at the time, with government corruption, violence, alcoholism, and crushing poverty. Also, everything Grandpa does is what Lakota people would reasonably expect a wikchasa wakan (holy man) to do; he leads a sweat lodge and later an outdoor prayer session, prays and leaves food out for animals, telepathically picks up on some facts about Ray's father, and offers to share a sacred pipe with him.
- Jimmy Looks Twice has a reputation for shape-shifting, but the film keeps it sufficiently ambiguous.
- The film also dodges Political Overcorrectness by having the main character, a federal agent assigned to investigate a murder at Pine Ridge Reservation (and the hero of the piece, mind you) be contemptuous of and sarcastic toward Lakota traditions at first - even though he is of part-Lakota ancestry himself, which is something he usually doesn't discuss (his poor relationship with his half-Lakota father seems to be the source of his prejudice). By the end of the film, said federal agent also fits the trope, to an extent.
- And spoofed by tribal police officer and Deadpan Snarker Walter Crow Horse, who claims that he heard a message on the wind that the protagonist was exceeding the speed limit, and supposedly guesses how much money a person had in their pockets just by the depth of their footprints. It's pretty clear he's joking though. Later when the federal agent has a vision, Crow Horse gets rather annoyed because he has never had one!
- The Yellow Handkerchief: Gordy (who is white but raised by Native Americans) tries to invoke this a couple of times, but it's used to show him as an idiot.
- Wayne's World: In Wayne's World 2, Wayne is escorted through the desert to Jim Morrison's ghost by a "weird naked Indian".
- Young Guns: Chavez, who's referred to as "the Indian" a few times, is portrayed as "the wise one" of the bunch and acts as a de facto shaman during the peyote sequence, bordering on Magical Native American.
- Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry firmly believed that humanity would eventually abandon religion, so this is the default status for human characters in the franchise, although various alien characters (particularly Klingons and Bajorans) are shown to have religious or spiritual beliefs and practices. The only major human exceptions are Sisko, whose major character arc is his gradual acceptance of his status as a religious figure to the Bajorans, and Chakotay, who has some Magical Native American tendencies thanks to series co-creator Michael Piller's interest in New Age spirituality (in general, Native Americans in the Trek franchise seem to be the exception to the "humans are secular" rule).
- Street Fighter: T. Hawk — the calm, [[Magical Native American spiritually-inclined Native American.
- Zorro: White Owl, Zorro's maternal grandmother in the Isabel Allende novel, is a shaman who trains him. It's why he adopts the fox as his symbol, as it's his spirit animal. A version of White Owl also appears in The New Adventures (as Grey Owl, and not stated to be his grandmother), Generation Z (as an unnamed Spirit Advisor who appears as a young girl) and The Chronicles (as Zorro and his sister Ines's grandmother Tainah, who is training her granddaughter).
- Alterien: Oberon could be considered this, as he is a mixed Native American. He looks like an attractive Native American with gray eyes and dark brown hair. This trope is somewhat played down in that his abilities are science-based rather than magical. However, many humans who witness his abilities in certain time periods regard him as a magical being.
- Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter: Partially subverted. Sylvester is trained as part of a secret Cheyenne werewolf hunting sect, but they have no special powers. Sylvester's relationship with the spirits is also treated as a purely real-life quest for a genuine religious experience.
- Avalon: Web of Magic: Gran, with her fortune cookie sayings. Her granddaughter Adriane too, being the warrior, who bonds with wolves, can travel the astral planes in spirit form, and her element is earth.
- Awesiaki: Subverted with Mahalia. While she is shamanistic, and has deep insight and knowledge to the nature of the creatures in the woods, there is nothing supernatural or magic about her. Her knowledge comes from having been raised by a clan of "Forest People". The head of the clan "Big John" on the other hand, walks with one foot in the living world and the other in the spirit world. He's the last of his family to have this gift, and despite not being Native American himself, fits the trope closer.
- Cretaceous Roulette: Played with. Stephanie wonders whether the Navajo (Including Ahiga) have inherent tracking skills. Karl dismisses this idea as racist.
- Dark Future: Hawk-That-Settles, he's the one who instructs cyberpunk ganger Jessamyne on how to attain higher levels of spirituality, to prepare for her role as The Chosen One. He can also perceive the spirit within a person. This allows him to recognize Dr. Ottokar for the human monster he is.
- Monkey Beach: Deconstructed. Lisa is a Magical Native American, but she is The Hero, and her gifts bring her a great deal of trouble.
- Moonheart: Basically every First Nations person that appears is a shaman of some sort or another.
- The Gifted: Mutant Underground: Downplayed. He's a mutant, but not because of his Native American ethnicity. However, his superhuman tracking ability does play into Native American stereotypes.
- Characters.The Legend Of Zelda Twilight Princess: He looks like one, fitting with his role as a shaman and the general Native American vibe Kakariko Village has in this game.
