History Main / TipisAndTotemPoles

[[GratuitousForeignLanguage O'siyo]],

The trope name comes from two particularly common tropes of this: Plains Indian tipis, and Pacific Northwest totem poles. The two are socially organized quite differently; also, the Great Plains tend to be drier than TheOtherRainforest.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' has the Quileute wearing animal skins in a flashback. It's called TheOtherRainforest for a reason, people!

A subtrope of InjunCountry. Also see BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins, HollywoodNatives and MagicalNativeAmerican, which are often found in this setting. Also compare {{Mayincatec}}, which is basically this trope applied to the indigenous groups of the Americas south of the Rio Grande.

* ''Disney/PeterPan'', and [[IncrediblyLamePun how]]!

* ''Disney/PeterPan'', and [[Pun how]]!

* ''Disney/PeterPan'', and how!

* This is actually adressed in the ''DouweDabbert'' album "The Masked Chieftain": when Douwe, Pief and Domoli visit the tipi-inhabiting tribe where Kijfje is staying, they discover that they have a totem pole. Yellow Fang points out that usually only northern tribes have totem poles, but that Kijfje (who is Dutch) felt that the tribe needed to have one.

* This is actually adressed in the ''DouweDabbert'' album "The Masked Chieftain": when Douwe, Pief and Domoli visit the tipi-inhabiting tribe where Kijfje is staying, they discover that is has a totem pole. Yellow Fang points out that usually only northern tribes have totem poles, but that Kijfje (who is Dutch) felt that the tribe needed to have one.

* [[Franchise/MortalKombat Nightwolf]] has been Hopi (in the film) and Lakota (in the games), has had BeadsBraidsAndBuckskins, and has had a number of stereotypical powers that, if not autochthonous to Western stereotypes, are based on one culture or another. In the cartoon, he has a wolf named Kiva.

* ''Disney/PeterPan.'', and how!

Compare BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins, InjunCountry, HollywoodNatives and MagicalNativeAmerican, which often relate to or overlap this. Also compare {{Mayincatec}}, which is basically this trope applied to the indigenous groups of the Americas south of the Rio Grande.

Compare HollywoodNatives and MagicalNativeAmerican, which often relate to this. Also compare {{Mayincatec}}, which is basically this trope applied to the indigenous groups of the Americas south of the Rio Grande.

Compare MagicalNativeAmerican, which often relates to this; also compare {{Mayincatec}}, which is basically this trope applied to the indigenous groups of the Americas south of the Rio Grande.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' has the Quileute wearing animal skins in a flashback. It's called TheOtherRainforest for a reason, people!

* Averted in ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard''. Omri assumes Little Bear lives in a teepee, but he's an Iroquois (which are from the East Coast, not the Great Plains) who actually lives in a longhouse. He ends up living in Omri's toy teepee because that's all he has at the moment. Later on, he builds his own longhouse.

* Arguably some of the ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' {{mons}}, such as Sigilyph and Braviary. Black and White is in New York City.

* ''ShamanKing'' has the Patch tribe, supposedly from the Southwest. They live in pueblos...and Silva's final attack resembles a totem pole.
* ''{{Gigantor}}'' featured some aborigines treated in this way. Even worse when you consider that this was set in the twentieth century or later.

* [[PowerRangers Angel Grove]] is in California. In Tommy's part of the Zeo Crystal arc, he's living among plains Indians, who are implied to be his ancestors, something explicitly confirmed in another episode, when one of them, from a reservation just outside Angel Grove, is his brother. There's even an arrowhead to contain some EldritchAbomination.

* Arguably some of the ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'' {{mons}}, such as Sigilyph and Braviary. Black and White is in New York City.
* [[MortalKombat Nightwolf]] has been Hopi (in the film) and Lakota (in the games), has had BeadsBraidsAndBuckskins, and has had a number of stereotypical powers that, if not autochthonous to Western stereotypes, are based on one culture or another. In the cartoon, he has a wolf named Kiva.

Compare MagicalNativeAmerican, which often relates to this; also compare Mayincatec, which is basically this trope applied to the indigenous groups of the Americas south of the Rio Grande.

Compare MagicalNativeAmerican, which often relates to this.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' has the Quileute wearing animal skins in a flashback. It's called TheOtherRainforest for a reason, people! Worse yet, it's the 1930s, when said Quileutes would've served in WorldWarOne.

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