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THE ORIGINAL

"Two Wolves inside of you" thing: started by a White priest in the 70s iirc and he would switch up which alleged "tribe" said this to him. Also doesn't fit in with any of the spiritual or mythological beliefs of any of the cited tribes. Would use it against ndns who were mad about colonization

Dead man walking Tornado thing: attributed to a Cherokee beliefs about a tornado formation that can sometimes look like walking legs at a certain angle. Also bullshit. I don't know where the "dead man walking" thing came from, but it's definitely not Cherokee

Indian Burial Ground (and specifically Amityville horror): The Amityville house where those murders occurred wasn't haunted. The author who wrote the book "the Amityville horror" (which the films are based off of) kicked off this trope into supersonic mode because she said that this house was on an area where the Shinnecock Natives would abandon their mentally ill and dying. But that was complete bullshit because 1. The Shinnecock didn't treat their mentally ill that way & called her out on that, and 2. That wasn't even on Shinnecock land, that was Montauk land, and they didn't do that either. She just made that up so there was an excuse for why the house was allegedly evil.

"Bottom of the Totem Pole" expression to refer to someone's low importance: this is a colonizers misunderstanding of how totem poles work, what they're for, and what they mean. It's not insulting or bad for the figure depicted at the bottom of the pole to be at the bottom & it doesn't have less importance than the other figures on the pole. It can depend on the tribe & the specific totem pole, but sometimes it's actually the opposite where the figure at the bottom is deemed the most important because it bears the weight of the rest of the pole.

"Chippewa is an Indian Word that means Orphan": this is some random bullshit from The Addams family that they added to be edgy, but Chippewa is a bastardization of either the Cree exonym for the Ojibwe, Ocipwêw, which means "they stutter", OR it's from the Ojibwe's own word for themselves, O'chepe'wag, which refers to the way they make moccasins.

Fake "Warriors of the Rainbow" Indian prophecy: There's this story that's allegedly an "Ancient Indian prophecy" (usually attributed to either the Hopi or Crees) where everyone on earth will reincarnate with the souls of dead Native Americans and teach everyone how to live with nature or whatever. This was made up by a White Evangelical Christian in 1962 to Evangelize among Native Americans with antisemitic propaganda throughout, and is still pushed by essentially a White Hippie cult and they use this as an excuse as to why it's okay for them to appropriate & steal Native American traditions & cultures.

I wanted to answer the question in the tags here, but I didnt include the ice cannibal (one proper name I can use without saying the w word out loud, as it's not good in my tribe to say it) as a whole because that IS a genuine spirit that I didn't need to address as a whole, just that the specific thing I mentioned earlier in the post that was made up by Stephen King. There's other general misconceptions about Native Americans that we could sit here all day for, but I wanted to try stay on topic, and the topic is that these are things people who aren't Native genuinely believe are REAL Native American beliefs and from Native spirituality/ideology, but the mentioned ones were all inventions of White people who just make shit up about us. And because most people know almost nothing about Native Americans, that's how most people end up believing & spreading the bullshit.

Back to the question, info regarding the ice cannibal:

It is not antlered, and it does not resemble deer, or an antlered creature. or have any association with deer in any way, as far as I can find this is also the invention of Stephen King.

White people very frequently get this Spirit & the Navajo sk*walker mixed up & will use the terms & mythology interchangeably. They are not the same and are incredibly different.

Not every single Native tribe believes in it, there isn't one thing that every single tribe believes in. It is primarily found in & originated from the beliefs of several Algonquian speaking tribes & Great Lakes tribes. Variations of the Spirit, its name, & legends surrounding it will vary, including whether or not one should say it's name. To those unaware: to be safe & courteous & polite, try not to say it's name in front of people from the tribes I've mentioned and as the user has done in the tags (I appreciate it!).

The W by Algernon Blackwood's Wikipedia page gives a good synopsis of the story.

While the whole deer skull thing may have come from King, the mimicry came from another white man. Most W stories are actually variations on the misinterpretation by Blackwood, including Stephen King's, particularly in the pre-millenium.

I do not mean to over step, and will delete this if it's not wanted.