Two-Spirit People: We Considered Them Sacred
"Christian leaders, stand on our soil and claim: gay marriage has never occurred here. Over 130 tribes in every region of North America performed millions of same sex marriages for hundreds of years. Their statements are both hateful and ignorant. Your "homosexual" was our "Two Spirit" people... We considered them sacred." -Pretty Shield
Pretty Shield
(1856–1944) was a medicine woman of the Crow Nation
Born
in 1856 to Kills-in-the-Night and Crazy-Sister-in-Law, Pretty Shield was the
fourth of eleven children. -Learn More on Wikipedia
Two-Spirit People
(also Two Spirit or Twospirit) is an umbrella term sometimes used for what was
once commonly known as berdaches, Indigenous North Americans who fulfill one of
many mixed gender roles found traditionally among many Native Americans and Canadian
First Nations communities.
Third gender roles
historically embodied by Two-Spirit people include performing work and wearing
clothing associated with both men and women. The presence of male two-spirits
"was a fundamental institution among most tribal peoples." Male and female
two-spirits have been "documented in over 130 tribes, in every region of
North America. -Learn more on Wikipedia
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