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> Two-Spirit people now this is new.
by dominotw 5y ago
> Two-Spirit people
now this is new.
- olliej 5y agoIt really isn’t - it’s been a part of many Native (north&south) American cultures forever.
- deagle50 5y agoHow do you prove this?
- zimpenfish 5y agoMildly new-ish, coined in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
- oh_sigh 5y agoNope. It's basically just a term used for trans/non-binary people in an indigenous community. For example, We'wha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We'wha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We'wha The term "two spirit" is relatively new(1990s), but many tribes would have a term for basically "a man who lives as a woman" or vice versa.
- steeleduncan 5y agoThe first documented evidence of it seems to go back 300 years, most likely it has existed hundreds, if not thousands, of years before that.
- nathanvanfleet 5y agoNarrator: it wasn't