Native Americans

"You've devoured the land, wealth is beneath contempt, you can't heal the wounds of our Mother. The decline of our race marks the end of your trace. Your victims convict you of murder! Progress is danger! The arrows too weak, our history's even delete! Hush up, locked in reservation, the pride you'll never defeat!"

- Al Wolfscreed



 were the indigenous people of North America. During the time period of the Red Dead series they were also referred to by the derogatory term "Indians", and primarily lived on reservations. appear as minor characters in Red Dead Redemption and play a larger role in Red Dead Revolver.

Red Dead Revolver
The main protagonist of Red Dead Revolver, Red Harlow, is half Native American by birth (his mother, Falling Star, being a member of the Red Wolf Tribe). His cousin, Shadow Wolf, also plays a large role in the story. Other Native Americans include Chief Running Moon, Shadow Wolf's grandfather, and the chief of the Red Wolf tribe, and Grizzly, the leader of the Black Elk Tribe, who is killed later by Shadow Wolf. A few Natives can also be seen in Bad Bessie's gang.

Red Dead Redemption
A large number of Native Americans left the reservations, and some joined Dutch van der Linde's new gang in West Virginia, where they commit various crimes until Marston and the American Army attack Dutch's hideout and kill most of the Natives left.

A Native American known as Nastas helps Marston with a couple of Professor Harold MacDougal's missions after you rescue him from the Wreck of the Serendipity with Archer Forman and Edgar Rose, although he gets shot by his fellow Native Americans in "For Purely Scientific Purposes".

Because Harold MacDougal treats Native Americans like savage, different and ignorant people, the Native Americans hated him and tried to hunt him down with Dutch before he left the West, although John helps him get safely on the train to Yale in "The Prodigal Son Returns (To Yale)".

Native Americans can be played in Multiplayer as part of the Indian's Gang category in the Outfitter.

Native Americans can be found just about anywhere in West Virginia aside from Gold Town, and are participants in many of the random events.

Trivia

 * The only Native Americans that can be seen doing normal activities are Hassun, Emerson Lang and Chogan, they can sometimes be found at Crystal Camp playing five-finger fillet.
 * Hassun, Chogan, and Nastas are the only friendly Native Americans, however Chogan, along with Hassun, will be hostile if the player threatens him.
 * Nightwolf, a character from the Mortal Kombat series is also a Native American.
 * There is a German band named Crows that sing about Native Americans and how the white men steal their land away from them.