They went by aakíí'skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
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