Two Spirit People …. “GENDER AND TRANSGENDER IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION”!!

Throwback post …. in view of current attitudes! Two Spirit People ….. nothing new in America. This is a historical fact!

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TWO SPIRIT PEOPLE

GENDER AND TRANSGENDER IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION

In Native American cultures, people that we would usually call gay or transgender are known as ‘two-spirit people’

people who embody both male and female spirits. Sometimes these two-spirit people are known in anthropological literature as ‘berdache‘.

This video beautifully presents the two-spirit tradition. It emphasizes that the two-spirit role is a spiritual one, which makes it different from gay or lesbian identity, which is based on the physical and social.

“Traditionally, the Two-spirited person was one who had received a gift from the Creator, that gift being the privilege to house both male and female spirits in their bodies. “

Having both male and female within gives two-spirit people the ability to transcend boundaries, including the boundary between the earth and the spirit world. Thus they can provide a conduit to the spirit world. For this reason…

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