Usually a skinwalker is a shapeshifting witch of the southwest, particualary the Navajo Dineh, but as a theme on the more generalized native belief in "shifting" which shows up in movies set all over America, from New York to the Dakotas, this takes on werewolves as native shapeshifting, after being cursed (with a bite of course), a la Wendigo style. Of course, by this time, people of all walks now living in the New World have been exposed to this curse. As I've pointed out before, it does have some native actors; I mentioned Tom Jackson, I did not mention the lead role of Varek, assayed by Jason Behr, who is part Ojibwe.
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