It is now recognized in over 200 native tribes, with 35 active Two-Spirit societies within the United States and Canada. It refers to Native LGBTQ+ persons who are both masculine and feminine.įrom then to now alternative roles for Two-Spirit people were widely shared features of North America and have been documented in over 150 tribes historically, with the growth of the Two-Spirit movement. The purpose of the group was to provide a safe place for Gay Indians to gather, socialize, and share.Ĭlyde Hall was also a founding member of GAI and spoke about the word Two-Spirit and its use as a contemporary umbrella term for all indigenous people to describe their sexual, gender and or spiritual identity. Burns spoke about his community activism when he and Barbara Cameron Lakota Sioux created the first ever of it’s kind the Gay American Indians (GAI) group back in July of 1975. Tribal member Clyde Hall and Randy Burns who is Paiute from Nevada, did a PowerPoint presentation on Cultural History. University of Minnesota Press 2011.Historical photo of Osh-Tisch and Magpie.įORT HALL - The Victims Assistance Program hosted the first LGBTQ Two-Spirit Awareness Day at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino/Hotel & Event center Thursday, June 20, in Fort Hall. Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. ISBN-10: 0252066456 ISBN-13: 978-0252066450īecoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country. Sue-Ellen Jacobs (Editor), Wesley Thomas (Editor), Sabine Lang(Editor). Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. The Spirit and The Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Will Roscoe, University of New Mexico Press 1991. ISBN: 1-56023-089-4Ĭhanging Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. Harrington Park Press An Imprint of The Haworth, Inc., New York, London 1997.
Two-Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men. Check out a a few of these books that could be helpful when learning more about being two-spirit.
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