Little Crow wrote:

...well, actually, the term "Trickster" covers alot of territory. It's not really the same as the Christian's Satan, but it's something similar (no Hell for Injuns, W00T). The first evil spirit, been tormenting man since the beginning, etc. There are entire VOLUMES of stories related to the Trickster, called "cycles." Some of the Trickster cycle shit is hilarious. He usually shapeshifts alot in the pursuit of tricking, which I think we can all agree is a pretty handy skill if you're really into tricking people. Pretty much all the nations have some version, just like every other spiritual camp around the world, I guess. I think that's pretty much the first step after contemplating some form of divinity; you create sko ultimate evil. First comes mastery of fire, then you create God, then you create God's evil twin? Something like that. Oh, wait. People keep telling me there's no such thing as evil. Never mind.

I've been reading The Wandering Ones, a comic about post-apocalyptic Native-Americans, but specifically those those of the northwest (don't know the nation). There's a few references within there to Trickster as coyote, but I wasn't sure this was a global Native-American belief, hence my question.