To many Native American cultures, coyotes were powerful mythological figures endowed with the power of creation and venerated for their intelligence and mischievous nature. The Aztec name for the ...

Coyote: Coyotes are frequently depicted in folklore as clever, cunning, and opportunistic. In many Native American stories, the coyote is a trickster figure, using its wit to outsmart others.

Derek No-Sun Brown, a Shoshone-Bannock and Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, is Coyote, a Native American trickster. He poses, along with Dina DeVore (left), a Jemez and Kewa Pueblo, and Kaa Folwell ...

With the help of Native American consultants, Gauder and co-writer Géza Bereményi arrived at a middle ground between solemnity and amusement, the latter mostly derived from Coyote's thwarted antics.