Wendigo

One of the two surviving tribes that originate from the Pure Lands, the Wendigo are the only ones that are still only Amerindian. They still work for the removal of the white man, and the Garou who came with him, from the Pure Lands, though the newer generations are beginning to work towards compromise. While the Uktena, who they refer to as Little Brother, work in the area of spirits and magic, the Wendigo are masters of survival and guerilla warfare, and have great affinity with wind and winter spirits. The Wendigo are not known for their tolerance of fools, and are famed for their short tempers and matching fighting spirit. More than one Get of Fenris has found this out, the hard way. Totem: Wendigo Starting Willpower: 4 Starting Backgrounds: Any but Contacts or Resources. BookRef: WWtA, pg 101 The Wendigo are comprised of wolves and indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Sub arctic of North America. Unlike their Brother Tribe the Uktena they have not actively begun to include other cultures outside of their traditional Kinfolk into the tribe. As a whole the Wendigo tribe carries a grudge against the rest of the Garou Nation (of which they only consider themselves nominally part of) for the conquest of their caerns and protectorates during the European colonization of North America. It was this reckless time period that lead the Wendigo and Uktena to refer to non-Native Garou as Wyrmbringers. The grudge against Wyrmbringer Tribes can be expressed as mild condescension and mistrust among mainstream Wendigo to violent confrontation and guerilla warfare among the more extreme groups of the Tribe. Even before the conquest of the Pure Lands the Wendigo had a reputation as savage and vicious fighters; this has led them to have strong rivalries with the Get of Fenris tribe who have a similar reputation. They still claim Canada and the northern United States as their homeland, and are locked in the almost hopeless struggle against the encroachment of Wasichu society and its effects. This same tribe follows the spirit of 'The Great Wendigo', a mighty spirit of the winter and the wind who takes the form of a great white wolf and aids his people in their times of need. The spirit is known to be a cannibal spirit, and many Garou of the Wendigo tribe are likewise reputed by outsiders to have a temptation to eat human (or Garou) flesh. Book References - Wendigo Tribebooks and Wiki