Derek No-Sun Brown, a Shoshone-Bannock and Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, is Coyote, a Native American trickster. He poses, along with Dina DeVore (left), a Jemez and Kewa Pueblo, and Kaa Folwell ...

Our new city slickers have yellow eyes, long furry snouts and pointy ears that stand up. And boy, are they clever.

With the help of Native American consultants, Gauder and co-writer Géza Bereményi arrived at a middle ground between solemnity and amusement, the latter mostly derived from Coyote's thwarted antics.

To many Native American cultures, coyotes were powerful mythological figures endowed with the power of creation and venerated for their intelligence and mischievous nature. The Aztec name for the ...