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Indians. Native Americans. First Nations. Ikce wicasa. Whatever you call them, they've entered American fiction as an archetype. In general, this may apply to any "primitive" human society. However, by the nature of their ethnicity, they are given superhuman powers. These typically include animal telepathy, controlling the weather, being able to survive any climate with minimal clothing and equally minimal discomfort, speaking to ghosts, being able to run fast, and transforming into animals, as well as the ability to immediately understand any indigenous lanugage and understand herbal and other alternative medicines; it is not rare for a Cheyenne in Venezuela to speak Yanomamo.

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  • Indians. Native Americans. First Nations. Ikce wicasa. Whatever you call them, they've entered American fiction as an archetype. In general, this may apply to any "primitive" human society. However, by the nature of their ethnicity, they are given superhuman powers. These typically include animal telepathy, controlling the weather, being able to survive any climate with minimal clothing and equally minimal discomfort, speaking to ghosts, being able to run fast, and transforming into animals, as well as the ability to immediately understand any indigenous lanugage and understand herbal and other alternative medicines; it is not rare for a Cheyenne in Venezuela to speak Yanomamo.
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  • Indians. Native Americans. First Nations. Ikce wicasa. Whatever you call them, they've entered American fiction as an archetype. In general, this may apply to any "primitive" human society. However, by the nature of their ethnicity, they are given superhuman powers. These typically include animal telepathy, controlling the weather, being able to survive any climate with minimal clothing and equally minimal discomfort, speaking to ghosts, being able to run fast, and transforming into animals, as well as the ability to immediately understand any indigenous lanugage and understand herbal and other alternative medicines; it is not rare for a Cheyenne in Venezuela to speak Yanomamo. Our hero may (and often does) angst about his people's past, his struggles with alcoholism, the horrors of war, etc.; a good case will even make it so that he is in fact handicapped by the Western cultural milieu. A really good case will give him a mental illness of some kind. Clothing ranges from traditional Braids, Beads, and Buckskins to, for men at least, shirtlessness, wearing just a loincloth, or total nudity, but he absolutely must have long hair. Finally, his ethnicity may be otherwise plot-relevant. In a science fiction setting, his people may have been visited by aliens. And yes, the implications are quite unfortunate. Often, there will be a character who is part-Indian, part-something else (usually white). This person will usually self-identify as a member of "the other race," sometimes even when he or she is around other Indians. This character will usually not experience racial prejudice even if his or her true identity is uncovered, since for some reason mixing with Indians has never been considered as scandalous as mixing with Africans or Asians. (This is probably because Native Americans have always been considered "natural" and "American," as opposed to the more "foreign" nonwhite peoples. .) However, if this character does experience or witness anti-Indian prejudice, expect him or her to Go Native. If you were looking for Our East Indians Are Different, you might be looking for either Type Caste or various Race Tropes (often but not always with "Bollywood" or "India(n)" in the title). Examples of Our Indians Are Different include:
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