Native American video game characters?

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I can hardly count many in video games (or at least the mainstream ones).

Sure, fighting games can have one but they are often all about having a diverse and colourful cast so this may not count.

And even then you mostly see some with the same traditional outfit (for Turok I can understand since the comic was set in a world that isn't ours) but it's a bit lacking of originality (like Jamaican characters having green coloured outfit or European/German characters being blonde haired and blue eyed in any Japanese game).

The only original one I can recall so far is Tommy from Prey (2006) which looks more like a rocker yet still has the "mysticism" aspect with his powers:

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Tommy in Prey (and maybe Connor in AC3) is the only one that felt like a real human being, rather than a bundle of “noble savage” stereotypes.

I would love to play a Life Is Strange-style slice-of-slice game set in a Native American community. Reservation Dogs is one of my favorite TV series of the decade and it would be great to play a game in that world.
 
i've seen these two native american characters in a couple of games that i've played:
Tala - Darkwatch:
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and Humba Wumba from Banjo Kazooie:
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Do you mean an Indian? Because I was born in America, which makes me a native American. Same with my whole family, and a huge amount of other people born in America who are native Americans. I suppose you're talking about tribes and Indians etc. Not many games about that culture because it doesn't sell.
No you're not. Your ancestors were probably european like 90% or more of the american people. Native american means having descendents who were born in that contintent, specificallly North America,
 

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