I've always admired Natives. I even had a few Native friends in high school. One of my favorite stories came from the local Ojibwe band.
It's called the Hoop Dance. It appears across many Native American tribes, and was supposedly created by Pukawiss the Outcast. His father was a human chieftain, but his mother was unknown. (A Manidoo---a forest spirit, in some versions of the story.) Pukawiss' father favored his brother, Maudjee-kawiss, who was really athletic and good at hunting, running, swimming, and fishing. All the really "manly" things a Native boy was expected to do. But Pukawiss was gentle, and didn't have the heart to kill animals. Instead, he liked to go off in the forest and watch the animals as they went about their lives. Eventually, he created a series of movements to mimic the animals, the water, and the grass, and taught these first "dances" to his tribe. All of the girls fancied him, but his heart was devoted to dancing, and he left his village to wander the earth and spread his knowledge to the other tribes.