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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 8032777" data-attributes="member: 6686357">The thunderbird is literally listed under "thunder gods."[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.native-languages.org/legends-thunder.htm[/URL]Are you referring to the fact that different tribes assign different degrees of divinity, ranging from "bird so big its wings make the sound of thunder" to "shapeshifting god who has demigod children"?There isn't any one thunderbird. It's an archetypal figure. There's a unique version for every tribe.Please educate me because I have no idea what you're saying.They have a point. Most of the time beings from these tribes' stories are used to terrorize white people and divorced from their cultural context. For example, the zombie deer monster that Euro-American pop culture calls a "wendigo" does not preserve Ojibwe culture in any way. It's gotten so pervasive that some educational youtube channels are mistakenly depicting the zombie deer as if it's accurate to the Ojibwe culture.</blockquote>