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To those looking for more American Indian fantasy: If you're willing to go outside of the d20/ D&D-legacy realm, there's Totems of the Dead and Ehdrigohr. Totems of the Dead is swords & sorcery setting for Savage Worlds, based closely on pre-Colombian contact North America, with close analogues for most of the major American Indian cultural groups (including the Aztecs), plus rules for visitors from fantasy equivalents of Russia, Scandinavia, China, etc. I gather the author is an anthropologist with a strong familiarity with American Indian culture. Ehdrigohr is a dark fantasy setting using Fate. The creator is a Lakota (Sioux) story-teller and the world of Ehdrigohr is heavily influenced by traditional Lakota beliefs, but with elements from a wide range of world cultures mixed in. Totems of the Dead probably wouldn't be that hard to convert to Pathfinder. I haven't finished reading through Ehdrigohr, but it feels like enough of its own thing that converting it might be hard.
Also, in the realm of fiction, there's the fantasy novel Bear Daughter, which is heavily influenced by the society and mythology of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. The author, Judith Berman, is an anthropologist who studied with those peoples; she has an essay somewhere online on how she dealt with the issues of cultural appropriation when writing the novel.
So, while there is certainly a dearth of American Indian-influenced fantasy, the field is not completely barren. (More, of course, would be good.)