Deer Woman

This article is about the Native American mythological spirit. For the Reservation Dogs episode, see Deer Lady. For the Masters of Horror episode, see Deer Woman (Masters of Horror).

Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in various Indigenous American mythologies whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. But generally to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous, and known to lure these men to their deaths. She appears as either a beautiful young woman with deer feet or as a deer.

As Native political goals and social movements continue to expand in response to the increasing violence against Indigenous women, new retellings of Deer Woman's story have emerged. Contrary to her traditional narrations, Deer Woman has been reimagined within the framework of missing and murdered Indigenous women, abandoning her image as a murderous seductress for that of a self-saving hero acting out of necessity.

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