Episode: Bugs
One of two American Indian themed episodes from the 1st season, this is the only one to actually feature Native American actors. This one feature Dineh [Athabascan] actor Jimmy Herman, who hails from Canada. He is supposed to have knowledge of a curse put on the land his people once lived on after they were mostly killed off or driven off the land in massacre after massacre in the 1800's.
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| Jimmy Herman |
The action in this episode takes place in Oklahoma (which roughly translates from the Mvskogi language as "home of red people"). Although there were Native Americans occuping tranditional lands in Oklahoma of course (there are numerous Mound complexes in the east, the largest of which is Spiro), it is a state that is mostly known as place where they (meaning the US government and the Army) relocated Indians to in the 1820's and 1830's. Known The Trail of Tears to southeastern nations, truthfully, tribes from the four corners were sent there. Some didn't stay, most did.
Sam and Dean are sent to Sapulpa Oklahoma, which is indeed where "they" "keep" what is left of the Yuchi tribe.
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| Spiro |
MORE INDIAN CURSES:
Supposedly Cherokee's curse the Tennessee River
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| Tecumseh |
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