We should make a list of all the things White people have falsely attributed to Native American mysticism but its actually bullshit
I'll go first
"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.
"Ice Cannibals can mimick humans to lure them in to kill them": this is purely a Stephen King thing that he made up for Pet Cemetary. Ice Cannibals can't speak and can't mimic anything.
More:
"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.
Spirit Animals... TO AN EXTENT...: what most people THINK of Spirit Animals & how they describe them as a concept is kind of a White amalgamation & misconception of multiple tribes' concepts of Spirit helpers, & what those ACTUALLY are & how they work will differ between tribes, but I won't get into that. Yes it is still appropriation if you say "x is my spirit animal" & no you do not have a Native American Spirit Guide if you are not Native American. & we can tell when Moniyaws don't know what the fuck they're talking about when they try to explain what they think a 'Spirit Animal' is.
