Indians of the southeast have tales involving a rabbit, who outwits a wolf; Prof. J. H. Vest has written in "American Indian Quarterly" and in "Weber Studies" about Bobtail and the Wolf.

There is much argument about where some of the Brer Rabbit stories originated; Africa, India or American Indian, but the arguments in some of these so-called scholarly studies are based on shaky or nebulous evidence, not substantiated very far into the past.
Most students, however, attribute the Brer Rabbit stories to African precursors; there the tales concerned many other animals besides hares. The Brer Rabbit stories may represent the survival of a segment of these stories.

In the West of North America, the principal tricksters are Coyote and the Raven.

The stories of the southeast as interpreted by Vest (others dispute some of his conclusions) are discussed by him at this Weber website:
http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20B%20Vol.%2011-16.1/Vol%2012.3/12.3Vest.htm