Native Canadian Mythology In the west the trickster figure was given the identity of a raven.The cunning trickster perhaps represents the way in which life both gives and takes away. The trickster often helps human beings but sometimes only to play a joke on them --or on the gods.Native Canadian Mythology In the west the trickster figure was given the identity of a raven. The cunning trickster perhaps represents the way in which life both gives and takes away. The trickster often helps human beings but sometimes only to play a joke on them --or on the gods