Jimmy Dingo

Jimmy Dingo is a Bunyip during the time of the Wild West.

Overview

Jimmy's pejorative name came from the Europeans who knew him. The colonists who mixed with aboriginals typically gave a native an English first name (so they didn't have to learn an aboriginal name) and a surname that seemed to suit the native and degrade him at the same time. There was something animalistic about Jimmy, canine even, and so they called him Dingo. They were not far from wrong.

Jimmy was a Bunyip who went through his First Change just as the first hostilities of the War of Shame were occurring. He never knew the long peace that was the habit of generations before him, which should have been his birthright. He grew up among Bunyip who talked nostalgically about those times as they continued to lose the war they fought, and Jimmy got angrier and angrier. He saw his people being destroyed by the invaders and their doing little about it because they did not understand the seriousness of the threat, or the real nature of the enemy. Jimmy vowed to change things. He mastered his Rage and mingled among the whites, posing as a "Black Tracker" - a title the Europeans gave to aboriginals they employed. Black Trackers traced criminals mostly, but they also got work finding rogue animals that were killing stock. They knew never to track Bunyip.

Jimmy Dingo was a very good tracker, but he sometimes led his charges into the middle of a desert, where they depended on him for food and water. There, he'd teach them some manners. Many humans, and even a few Garou, died learning Jimmy's harsh lessons. He could have gone on this way until he was discovered and killed by the European Garou - except that he met Tam. Tam was Wendigo Kinfolk and a displaced American Indian traveling with an American schoolteacher. Tam befriended Jimmy and told him of her people in the West who were fighting a war that was not unlike his own. Jimmy, inspired by the idea of recruiting allies, decided to travel to America.

Jimmy traveled by merchant ship to San Francisco and he had his eyes opened to the enormity of the world. At that time, Moon Bridges had been captured by the Garou. The werewolves, however, couldn't utilize the Bunyip caerns effectively and so the Moon Paths lay empty. Jimmy encountered Africans, West Indians and other peoples who had fallen victim to European colonization, and he realized that the problem was much larger than he imagined.

A year after he left Australia, Jimmy arrived on the frontier a much-changed individual, but his central purpose remained firm. He sought out the Wendigo to enlist their help. The first of the Pure Ones Jimmy encountered were, in fact, Uktena, who maintained a strong interest in the Australian aboriginal people after their first meeting. They received Jimmy with sympathy but offered no armies of Garou warriors to liberate Australia.

Jimmy continues to travel the West somewhat lost. He occasionally involves himself in local matters, but he sadly observes the destruction of yet another native culture.

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