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Though Two-Spirit may now be included in the umbrella of LGBTQI+, The designation "Two-Spirit" does not simply mean someone who is a Native American/Alaska Native and gay.

Traditionally, Native American Two-Spirit people were male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women with traits unusual to their status as Two-Spirit people. In most tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a clear, alternative gender status. In tribes where Two-Spirit males and females were referred to with the matching term, this status amounted to a third gender. In other cases, Two-Spirit females were referred to with a distinct legal title and, therefore, constituted a fourth gender. Although there were important variations in Two-Spirit roles across North America, they shared some common traits:

• Specialized work roles. Male and female Two-Spirit people were typically described in terms of their preference for and achievements in the work of the "opposite" sex or in activities specific to their role. Two-Spirit individuals were experts in traditional arts - such as pottery making, basket weaving, and the ma
  
  

  LGBTQ American Indians notify high levels of depression and exploitation, study finds

  Lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual and non-binary American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) adults have higher levels of mental health issues, physical abuse and economic instability than their non-LGBTQ peers, according to a fresh report. 

  The study, released last month by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Regulation in advance of Native American Heritage Month in November, found 42 percent of AIAN LGBTQ adults have been diagnosed with depression, compared to less than a quarter of non-LGBTQ Native people and just 6.7 percent of the general U.S. population. 

  AIAN LGBTQ adults, particularly women, are also more likely to engage in high-risk health behaviors, including heavy drinking, according to the findings.

  Three-quarters of respondents reported not having had enough cash to make ends meet in the prior year, compared to less than half of non-LGBTQ AIAN people. And nearly half reported a major financial crisis in the prior year, compared to just 11 percent of heterosexual, cisgender Indigenous people.

  “The complex picture of health and economic vulnerabilities of AIAN LGBT people is likely a product of
  

  These documents about LGBTQ+ Native Americans present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical doctors, anthropologists, and homosexual emancipationists. In a few rare instances the voices of LGBTQ American Indians are heard.

  Commentors
  The sources quoted tell as much, and often more, about the commentator's sentiments about Native homosexuality than they do about its actual historical forms. The commentator is briefly characterized in the introduction to each document, to suggest what particular group interest may lean behind each observation.

  Chronology
  Documents are presented here chronologically, according to the date of the event referred to, or, alternatively, if such date is unknown, according to the time during which the writer traveled or lived among the people observed, or according to the document's date of composition or publication. The intention of this arrangement is to offer a sense of the adjust in types of commentators and commentary, and to begin to set both in historical perspective.

  This arrangement separates material referring to the same tri
  
  

  Making Love with the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead

  Call Number: PR9199.4.W4745 M35 2022

  ISBN: 9781517914479

  Publication Date: 2022-11-15

  The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most stimulating and important recent literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda Literary Award and Canada Reads 2021. In Making Affectionate with the Ground, his first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the relationships between body, language, and land through innovative essay, memoir, and confession. In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to produce a new shape of storytelling he calls "biostory"--beyond genre, and entirely sovereign. Through this narrative perspective, Making Value with the Territory recasts mental health struggles and our complex emotional landscapes from a nefarious parasite on his (and our) well-being to ki