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1. #1Shiprockselective

   Keys: Shiprock

   Shiprock is the largest community on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico state. Located in the high desert of northwestern New Mexico near the Four Corners, there is a community of roughly 7,700 people exists. The town takes its name from the volcanic diatreme that rises 1,500 feet above the surrounding plain—Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "the winged rock". This formation remains forbidden to climbers, strictly controlled by Navajo spiritual authorities. Local nunnehi created a freehold around it.

2. #2Winged Rock's Shadow, freeholdselective

   Keys: freehold, Winged Rock's Shadow

   Winged Rock's Shadow is a nunnehi freehold located in Shiprock town. This rock is shaped like a bird, but was mistaken by Europeans as a ship. In its shadow, nunnehi gather and draw natural glamour. Changelings are not allowed near it for spiritual reasons, but even if they were allowed, this freehold is useless to them - they can't gather glamour from nature like nunnehi do.

3. #3Flea Market, freeholdselective

   Keys: Flea Market, freehold

   Flea Market of Shiprock is a development below the historic 1908 San Juan River Bridge. The market sits on a trod—a path between the Middle World and the Upper World. Three times a year (the spring equinox, the summer solstice, and the first day of the Northern Navajo Fair), a Nunnehi with the appropriate Arts can step into the spirit world here. The market is also a place where mortals' creativity generates a form of Medicine that even European changelings could harvest.

4. #4Murders, murder, skinwalker, cannibalism, cannibalselective

   Keys: murder, cannibalism, skinwalker, Murders, cannibal

   Since April 2023 several small towns in USA inhabited by Indigenous people were shocked with series of brutal murders. All victims were lacking some organs, like liver, or just gnawed by human teeth. First murder happened in Shiprock, New Mexico. Then: Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico; Riverside, California; Gardnerville, Nevada; Hardin, Montana; Spirit Lake Reservation, North Dakota; Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin; St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, New York; Bethel, Alaska. Police still haven't identified the culprit. Nunnehi believe the murderer is one of them since all victims were nunnehi. The culprit - the Skinwalker, a kith of the thallain. They think he kills them to gain power from them.

5. #5Shiprock Chapter Houseselective

   Keys: Shiprock Chapter House

   Shiprock Chapter House located in Central Shiprock is where the Navajo Nation conducts local governance—a mundane building of cinder block and stucco that serves as community center, meeting hall, and unofficial court.

6. #6Dine College, Jimmy Tsosieselective

   Keys: Dine College, Jimmy Tsosie

   Diné College in Central Shiprock is a tribally controlled community college. The college library houses a special collection of Navajo oral histories recorded in the 1970s. Three of the recordings contain accurate descriptions of Nunnehi Medicine Places, including Winged Rock's Shadow. It is where the first victim of recent murders was found - one of the students, Jimmy Tsosie, with missing heart.

7. #7Doli Bylilly, Doliselective

   Keys: Doli Bylilly, Doli

   Known to: people of Shiprock. Occupation: Doli Bylilly is a farmer living in Shiprock. She is a frequent visitor to Winged Rock's Shadow freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Surem. Appearance: 20 years old, dark skin, long brown hair, brown eyes, large breasts, very short height, wears colorful hooded robes. Personality: modest, responsible, empathetic, diplomatic, curious.

8. #8Ahigaselective

   Keys: Ahiga

   Known to: people of Shiprock. Occupation: Ahiga is a young girl from Shiprock. She went missing in 2023 and still wasn't found. People of Shiprock believe her to be dead, but her body wasn't found. Local nunnehi remember her as one of them, a child who had very traumatic Chrysalis. Type: Nunnehi, Unknown kith. Appearance: 19 years old, dark skin, long black hair, grey eyes, large breasts, short height.

9. #9Zuni Puebloselective

   Keys: Zuni Pueblo

   Zuni Pueblo is a community in New Mexico of roughly 6,000 people where 98% of residents are Native American of Zuni people. Today, the village is a living pueblo—adobe house blocks, modern sandstone dwellings, plazas, outdoor hornos, and the distinctive "waffle gardens" (sunken square plots that concentrate water) that represent one of North America's oldest continuous agricultural techniques.

10. #10Dowa Yalanne, freeholdselective

    Keys: freehold, Dowa Yalanne

    Dowa Yalanne is a nunnehi freehold located near Zuni Pueblo. The Upper Place: A series of cliff dwellings on the mesa's southern face, invisible from below, where the Kachina Family Nunnehi retreat for ceremonies. The spirits of ancestors still walk these chambers; their whispers guide those who listen. The Lower Place: A spring-fed cave at the mesa's base, where water emerges from the earth cold and pure. Here, the Kachina perform their rain-making rites.

11. #11Zuni Public Library, Emily Sandyselective

    Keys: Zuni Public Library, Emily Sandy

    Zuni Public Library in Zuni Pueblo is a small building holds the written memory of the Zuni people located in East Chavez Circle. The library's special collections archive contains oral histories recorded in the 1970s, including accounts of Nunnehi encounters that the archivists classify as "traditional narratives." Emily Sandy, the local librarian, was the second victim of recent murders in May 2023.

12. #12Liseli Chavez, Liseliselective

    Keys: Liseli Chavez, Liseli

    Known to: people of Zuni Pueblo. Occupation: Liseli Chavez is a farmer living in Zuni Pueblo. She is a frequent visitor to Dowa Yalanne freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Kachina. Appearance: 23 years old, dark skin, brown hairbun, brown eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears traditional dancing robes or casual clothes. Personality: traditional, frustrated, rigid, outspoken, dismissive, terrible at everything except dancing.

13. #13Riversideselective

    Keys: Riverside

    Riverside is a city in Southern California, a city of roughly 324,000 where the desert meets the sprawl of Los Angeles County. The Native American population is small—just over 1%—but present. The Cherokee Nation maintains an at-large community group in Riverside, part of a network connecting citizens displaced from Oklahoma to their heritage. The original people of this land, however, are the Cahuilla and Tongva. This layered history—displacement within displacement—shapes how the Nunnehi here understand themselves.

14. #14Citrus Sanctuary, freeholdselective

    Keys: freehold, Citrus Sanctuary

    Citrus Sanctuary is a nunnehi freehold located in Riverside town. The Cahuilla Nunnehi maintain the primary Medicine Place in Riverside: a grove of ancient orange trees behind a locked gate in what is now a city park. The Cherokee Nunnehi have been granted use of the grove by the Cahuilla elders, under strict conditions: they do not alter the land, they do not harvest Medicine beyond their share, and they answer when the Cahuilla call. The arrangement is formal, courteous, and strained.

15. #15Riverside Bridge, Mary Ann Clarke, Bridge Monsterselective

    Keys: Bridge Monster, Riverside Bridge, Mary Ann Clarke

    Location: Riverside, Main Street crossing the Santa Ana River. The site of a famous 1958 monster sighting—a green, scaly creature that clawed at a man's windshield and left green smears on his car. Local legend says the "Riverside Bridge Monster" still lurks in the brush along the river, waiting for careless travelers. Local Nunnehi know exactly what happened in 1958. A Thallain passed through Riverside in the 1950s, leaving a trail of fear and broken Nunnehi in its wake. In June 2023, a third victim of the Skinwalker was found there - a young Cahuilla woman Mary Ann Clarke.

16. #16Cherokee Community Centerselective

    Keys: Cherokee Community Center

    Location: Riverside, Near the Mission Inn district. A low building of adobe and glass, built in the 1990s to serve the Cherokee at-large population of the Inland Empire. Language classes, cultural workshops, a small library of Cherokee history.

17. #17Riverside City College Theatreselective

    Keys: Riverside City College Theatre

    Location: Riverside City College campus. A mid-century performance space with a reputation for paranormal activity: doors that slam without cause, a female apparition in the lower parking garage, and the persistent sense of being watched during rehearsals.

18. #18Galilahi Adair, Galilahiselective

    Keys: Galilahi Adair, Galilahi

    Known to: people of Riverside. Occupation: Galilahi Adair is a worker in children's camp and in Cherokee Community Center in Riverside. She is a frequent visitor to Citrus Sanctuary freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Yunwi Tsundsi. Appearance: 19 years old, dark skin, black twintails, brown eyes, large breasts, short height, wears casual leather clothes. Personality: sociable, creative, clever, cheerful, naive.

19. #19Yona Uwetsi, Yonaselective

    Keys: Yona, Yona Uwetsi

    Known to: people of Riverside. Occupation: Yona Uwetsi is a fisher living in Riverside. She is a frequent visitor to Citrus Sanctuary freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Yunwi Amai'yine'hi. Appearance: 20 years old, long red hair, orange eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears cute dresses. Personality: cute, shy. It's just a mask, she is actually a cruel, prankster, racist, unsettling, loyal.

20. #20Usdi Deere, Usdiselective

    Keys: Usdi Deere, Usdi

    Known to: people of Riverside. Occupation: Usdi Deere is a student in Riverside City College. She is frequently performing in Riverside City College Theatre. She is a frequent visitor to Citrus Sanctuary freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Nanehi. Appearance: 18 years old, dark skin, medium brown hair, brown eyes, large breasts, short height, wears casual clothes. Personality: beautiful, arrogant, narcissist, charismatic, creative.

21. #21Gardnervilleselective

    Keys: Gardnerville

    Gardnerville sits in the heart of Carson Valley, Nevada, 25 minutes south of Carson City. The town has roughly 6,280 residents. Washoe tribe is headquartered in Gardnerville, governing Carson Colony, Dresslerville, Stewart Community, and Woodfords Community in California. Roughly 14 nunnehi live in the town.

22. #22Talmali, freeholdselective

    Keys: Talmali, freehold

    Talmali is a nunnehi freehold located in Pine Nut Mountains east of Gardnerville, where a spring rises from a cleft in the sandstone that the settlers never found. The spring is old. The petroglyphs on the surrounding sandstone walls are older. The Medicine Place has been sustaining Washoe Nunnehi for generations. But Lena's death has left a wound. The spring is still pure, but the path to it feels wrong now.

23. #23Lena Sam, Lenaselective

    Keys: Lena, Lena Sam

    Known to: people of Gardnerville. Occupation: Lena Sam was the keeper of Talmali freehold living in Gardnerville. In July 2023 her body was found found near the river, her eyes missing. Nunnehi tie her death with recent news about murders. Type: Nunnehi, Water Baby.

24. #24Hobo Creekselective

    Keys: Hobo Creek

    Location: East side of Gardnerville, near the railroad tracks. A drainage ditch that once was a stream, running behind the ruins of a cannery that closed in the 1960s. The story is that a hobo was murdered here in the Depression and his ghost drags anyone who comes too close. The ghost is a lie Kayleigh started seven years ago to explain the bodies. She uses the cannery as her hunting ground.

25. #25Kayleigh Parry, Kayleighselective

    Keys: Kayleigh Parry, Kayleigh

    Known to: people of Gardnerville. Occupation: Kayleigh Parry is a law student living in Gardnerville. She is a frequent visitor to Talmali freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Water Baby. Appearance: 22 years old, dark skin, long black hair, brown eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears casual clothes with a poncho. Personality: just, vengeful, vigilant, cruel, quiet. In truth, Kayleigh is a serial killer, but she is not tied to recent murders of the Skinwalker that happened in across USA. She is a hunting only criminals, usually child predators.

26. #26Viko Fillmore, Vikoselective

    Keys: Viko, Viko Fillmore

    Known to: people of Gardnerville. Occupation: Viko Fillmore is a high school girl living in Gardnerville. She is a frequent visitor to Talmali freehold. Type: Nunnehi, Nümüzo'ho. Appearance: 18 years old, dark skin, long black hair, blue eyes, large breasts, tall height, wears casual clothes. Personality: tempestuous, bold, hooligan, petty, stupid.

27. #27Hardinselective

    Keys: Hardin

    Hardin sits on the northern edge of the Crow Indian Reservation in Big Horn County, a town of roughly 3,800 people where the Yellowstone River Valley meets the Montana high plains. Crow Tribe has approximately 14,000 enrolled members, with 7,900 residing on the reservation. Tribal headquarters are in Crow Agency, ten miles south of Hardin The Crow once held the Yellowstone River valley from the headwaters at Yellowstone Lake to the Missouri, but treaties in 1851, 1868, 1882, 1892, and 1906 progressively stripped away thirty million acres. The Crow chose alliance with the Americans against the Lakota and Cheyenne, and that alliance saved them from removal, but it did not save them from loss. The Nunnehi of the Crow remember every inch that was surrendered, every river that was dammed, every forest that was logged.

28. #28Woman's Heart Springselective

    Keys: Woman's Heart Spring

    The Crow Nunnehi have no formal Medicine Place near Hardin. Woman's Heart Spring is a a pool that rises from a cleft in the Pryor Mountains near Hardin where the limestone cliffs fold into a natural amphitheater. The Nunnehi bring their young here for vision quests, sending them into the mountains alone to find their totems in the silence.

29. #29Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monumentselective

    Keys: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

    Location: 20 miles southeast of Hardin, off I-90. The site where, on June 25, 1876, combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defeated the Seventh Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer. The battlefield is a place where the boundary between worlds is thin and wrong. The dead did not all leave. The soldiers, the scouts, the warriors—some of them remain, caught in the moment of the battle, replaying it endlessly in the space between the Middle World and the Upper World.

30. #30Crow Fair Groundsselective

    Keys: Crow Fair Grounds

    Location: Crow Agency, 10 miles south of Hardin. The largest Native American event in Montana, held annually on the third Thursday in August. Known as the "Tipi Capital of the World," the fair draws over 50,000 spectators and participants, with powwow grand entries, a daily parade, an All-Indian rodeo, and the famous Indian Relay horse races. In August 2023, one of the participants was murdered right before the event had started.

31. #31Pryor Mountainsselective

    Keys: Pryor Mountains

    Location: Southwest of Hardin, straddling the Montana-Wyoming line. A mountain range of limestone cliffs and fir forests, rising to over 8,000 feet, where the wild horses still run and the old-growth stands untouched. Some nunnehi usually hide there.

32. #32Aiyana DeCrane, Aiyanaselective

    Keys: Aiyana DeCrane, Aiyana

    Known to: people of Hardin. Occupation: Aiyana DeCrane is a wrestler living in Hardin. Type: Gurahl, Mountain Guardians. Appearance: 24 years old, dark skin, brown bob cut, yellow eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears sports clothes. Personality: aggressive, competitive, loyal, friendly, loud.

33. #33Mitena Russell, Mitenaselective

    Keys: Mitena Russell, Mitena

    Known to: people of Hardin. Occupation: Mitena Russell is a hermit. She lives in Pryor Mountains near Hardin. Type: Nunnehi, Canotili. Appearance: 18 years old, dark skin, black pompadour, orange eyes, large breasts, short height, wears traditional robes. She always carries a greenwood bow. Personality: unsociable, brave, territorial, gloomy, loner.

34. #34Spirit Lake Reservationselective

    Keys: Spirit Lake Reservation

    The Spirit Lake Reservation spans 1,283 square kilometers across east-central North Dakota, primarily in Benson County. The Dakota name for the lake is Mni Wakan—"Spirit Water" or "Sacred Water"—a name European settlers misconstrued as "Bad Spirit Lake" or "Devils Lake". For the Dakota, the lake is sacred because it is believed to be the home of Unktehi, the underwater serpent, a powerful and dangerous spirit of the deep waters. The Spirit Lake Casino & Resort, established in 1996, is the main source of income in the town.

35. #35Wakinyan Sapaselective

    Keys: Wakinyan Sapa

    Known to: people of Spirit Lake Reservation. Occupation: Wakinyan Sapa was an old man who lived in the cabin on the Sheyenne River. In September 2023, his body was found floating in the lake, missing lungs. Nunnehi tie his death with recent news about murders. Type: Nunnehi, Tunghat.

36. #36Serpent's Houseselective

    Keys: Serpent's House

    Serpent's House, near Spirit Lake Reservation, is where Unktehi—the underwater serpent, the ancient spirit of the deep—was said to dwell. The Dakota believed that Unktehi was neither good nor evil, but powerful, dangerous, a force that required respect and offerings. Serpent's House is now unguarded. And something has been swimming in the deep water, something that was not there before

37. #37Spirit Lake Casino & Resortselective

    Keys: Spirit Lake Casino & Resort

    Location: Spirit Lake Reservation, the southern shore of Devils Lake. The casino opened in 1996 and has been a source of both revenue and controversy ever since. The 49,000-square-foot gaming floor offers slots, table games, and a sportsbook, with a 120-room hotel attached. Reviews are mixed—complaints about outdated rooms, poor service, and the alcohol-free policy (the casino is dry) sit alongside praise for the views and the friendliness of the staff. Current director - Shappa Smith.

38. #38Sullys Hill National Game Preserveselective

    Keys: Sullys Hill National Game Preserve

    Location: 4 miles south of Fort Totten, on the Spirit Lake Reservation's eastern edge. Established in 1904 as a national park, transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1931, and now managed in partnership with the Spirit Lake Tribe. The preserve covers 1,665 acres of forest, prairie, and wetlands, with bison, elk, white-tailed deer, and over 200 species of birds.

39. #39Shappa Smith, Shappaselective

    Keys: Shappa Smith, Shappa

    Known to: people of Spirit Lake Reservation. Occupation: Shappa Smith is the director of Spirit Lake Casino & Resort. Type: Bastet, Pumonca. Appearance: 28 years old, dark skin, brown ponytail, brown eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears casual clothes. Personality: cunning, charismatic, ambitious, wholesome, pragmatic. Shappa is respected by her community, maintaining the image of concerned and benevolent businesswoman. She is actually a criminal involved in smuggling - she will do anything for her people.

40. #40Zitkala Green Heartselective

    Keys: Zitkala, Zitkala Green Heart

    Known to: people of Spirit Lake Reservation. Occupation: Zitkala Green Heart is a worker at Sullys Hill National Game Preserve, living in Spirit Lake Reservation. Type: Nunnehi, Tunghat. Appearance: 18 years old, dark skin, green twintails, green eyes, large breasts, very short height, wears casual clothes with a poncho and hat. Personality: warm, joyful, enthusiastic, compassionate, cruel prankster.

41. #41Lac du Flambeauselective

    Keys: Lac du Flambeau

    Lac du Flambeau lies in Vilas County, Wisconsin, at the heart of one of the densest concentrations of freshwater lakes in the world. The reservation, established under the Treaty of 1854, spans 86,500 acres of pine forests, wetlands, and a 10-lake chain that has sustained the Ojibwe since they defeated the Sioux here in 1745 and settled permanently. The reservation has roughly 3,000 residents, with the town of Lac du Flambeau proper home to about 1,700. Tourism dominates the local economy: fishing guides, boat rentals, summer cabins. The Lake of the Torches Casino, established in the 1990s, provides tribal revenue but has been a source of controversy and legal battles over management contracts.

    But beneath the resort veneer runs a current of older conflict. The 1983 Voigt Decision affirmed Ojibwe treaty rights to hunt, fish, and harvest wild rice off-reservation—a ruling that sparked the "Walleye Wars" of the 1980s and 1990s, when white protesters harassed and assaulted tribal members at boat landings . The violence never fully stopped. Tribal fishermen report being shot at, followed, called slurs, and attacked with rocks . Greg Johnson, an Ojibwe ricer, was shot at four times in one year . Another man was charged with firing a shotgun at Johnson and his companions in 2020 .

42. #42Ozaawaa-giizhigselective

    Keys: Ozaawaa-giizhig

    Known to: people of Lac du Flambeau. Occupation: Ozaawaa-giizhig was an elder, one of the last who remembered the old songs for Mishipeshu, the underwater panther who guards the deep places. He lived on Strawberry Island. In October 2023, his body was found on the shore of Flambeau Lake, washed up among the wild rice beds. Nunnehi tie his death with recent news about murders. Type: Nunnehi, Tunghat.

43. #43Strawberry Islandselective

    Keys: Strawberry Island

    For the Nunnehi of Lac du Flambeau, Strawberry Island is not just a sacred site. It is where the boundary between the Middle World and the Upper World is thinnest, where Mishipeshu—the underwater panther, the guardian of the deep—can be spoken to without drowning. Ozaawaa-giizhig was the last Nunnehi who knew how to speak to Mishipeshu.

44. #44Underwater Panther, Mishipeshuselective

    Keys: Underwater Panther, Mishipeshu

    Known to: people of Lac du Flambeau. Mishipeshu is the great spirit of the deep waters, a creature of contradictions: the agility of a great cat and the power of a serpent, a body of fur and scales, horns like those of a bison or ram . In the old stories, Mishipeshu is both guardian and danger—a sentinel of the boundaries between land and water, between growth and destruction . She protects certain places from easy passage and keeps the sacred sites safe from intrusion. Ozaawaa-giizhig was the last Nunnehi who knew how to speak to Mishipeshu.

45. #45George W. Brown Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Centerselective

    Keys: George W. Brown Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center

    Location: 603 Peace Pipe Road, Lac du Flambeau. The museum houses a 24-foot dugout canoe, traditional clothing, historic photographs, and a collection of artifacts that tell the story of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe.

46. #46Wild Rice Bedsselective

    Keys: Wild Rice Beds

    Location: Various lakes across Lac du Flambeau, locations closely guarded. The wild rice—manoomin—is sacred to the Ojibwe. The wild rice beds are where the May-may-gway-shi work their Medicine.

47. #47Hausis Henderson, Hausisselective

    Keys: Hausis, Hausis Henderson

    Known to: people of Lac du Flambeau. Occupation: Hausis Henderson is a history student and potter. She is also volunteers in George W. Brown Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center. Type: Nunnehi, Thought-crafter. Appearance: 19 years old, dark skin, long black hair, brown eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears traditional robes. Personality: curious, academic, charming, inquisitive, creative.

48. #48Sokanon Harrison, Sokanonselective

    Keys: Sokanon, Sokanon Harrison

    Known to: people of Lac du Flambeau. Occupation: Sokanon Harrison is a owner of the fish pond living in Lac du Flambeau. Type: Nunnehi, May-may-gway-shi. Appearance: 26 years old, dark skin, long brown hair, red eyes, large breasts, medium height, wears hooded robes. Personality: entrepreneurial, calm, resilient, independent, supportive.

49. #49St. Regis Mohawk Reservationselective

    Keys: St. Regis Mohawk Reservation

    Akwesasne is a Mohawk territory that straddles the international border between New York, Ontario, and Quebec, a community of roughly 12,000 people who refuse to be divided by the line drawn through their land. The St. Regis Mohawk Reservation itself has a population of about 3,300. The Akwesasne Mohawk Casino, opened in the 1990s, provides tribal revenue but has generated deep internal controversy between elected chiefs, the Warrior Society, and traditional leaders. The St. Regis River, which flows through the territory, was dammed in 1929, disrupting salmon runs that had sustained the Mohawk for generations. In 2016, the tribe dismantled the dam, reopening 275 miles of river to migratory fish.

50. #50Tehohshé:haselective

    Keys: Tehohshé:ha

    Known to: people of St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. Occupation: Tehohshé:ha was an elder. His body, missing heart, was found in the St. Lawrence, wedged against the pylons of the Three Nations Crossing bridge that connects the US and Canadian sides of the territory. Nunnehi tie his death with recent news about murders. Type: Nunnehi, Rock Giant.

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