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  title info:
    title: Reclaiming two-spirits
    sub title: sexuality, spiritual renewal, & sovereignty in Native America
  name:
    name part: Smithers, Gregory D.
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Heavy Runner, Raven E.
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxiii, 332 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who were called aakíí'skasi, miati, okitcitak-we or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. These individuals identified as neither male nor female, but as both. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term that started being used in 1990, when a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Natives met at an annual gathering, searching for language that would celebrate Indigenous diversity throughout North America. They decided on Two-Spirits, which is derived from the Northern Algonquin word niiz manidoowag and denotes the existence of feminine and masculine qualities in a single person. Covering five hundred years of history, and using archaeological evidence, art, written sources, and oral storytelling, Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. Examining sixteen images that reveal Two-Spirit history and culture, historian Gregory D. Smithers takes readers on a harrowing journey into Indigenous communities disrupted by colonial massacres, abductions and Inquisitions. The stories reveal how the authors of colonialism's written archives used violence and labels such as "hermaphrodite" and "berdache" to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from Indigenous history. but as Smithers shows, the colonizers failed in the face of heroic acts of Indigenous resistance. In the most up-to-date and complete history of Two-Spirit people ever written, Smithers brings to life the efforts of over five centuries of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential parts of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in a bid to save them. A product of close work with members of the Two-Spirit community, as well as Native American scholars and activists, …
  table of contents: Foreword / by Raven E. Heavy Runner -- Series note / Michael Bronski -- Note about language -- About the cover art -- Prologue -- Part 1: Judgments -- Invasion -- "Hermaphrodites" -- Sin -- Effeminacy -- Strange -- Part 2: Stories -- Resilience -- Place -- Paths -- Part 3: Reclaiming -- Reawakening -- Two-spirits -- Love -- Futures.
  note: Gregory D. Smithers ; foreword by Raven E. Heavy Runner.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
  subject:
    topic: Two-spirit people
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity
    geographic: North America
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: E98.S48 S65 2022
  classification: 306.7608997
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210907
    record change date: 20260327131406.7
    record identifier: in00004587762