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I appreciate your telling me. I am not indigenous either. I would not want to be disrespectful to anyone. I would not steal another person's culture for a game or any other reason. I do know wendigo are deeply spiritual and not to be used by just anyone. 

  Windigos are wind spirits from MLP. They are named after wendigo but in no way related. There is also the huricanter, a weather spirit that is the same kind of creature as the windigo.  Instead of snow storms it creates hurricanes. I do think there are better weather puns out there. As far as I can find no one was upset by the pun. No one ever claimed they were in any way realated to indigenous culture.

Even if they have a different explanation, I would argue that the name is too similar to say that it would be a good idea, whether or not there was pushback against MLP, you know? But as you pointed out, there are other, better weather puns! 😊

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The person you'd be best to speak to on this is nuffofabby.bsky.social who is an award winning ttrpg performer, sensitivity reader and cultural consultant in this area as well as being one of the loveliest and most approachable people in the ttrpg community :)