Two Spirit Conference organizer Myk Mendez of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes in Idaho put it bluntly to attendees at a gathering of tribal citizens earlier this summer in Nevada: “I want people to not ...

For generations, many Indigenous cultures across North America recognized people who embodied both masculine and feminine ...

Is the "North American berdache" merely a phantom in the imagination of Western social scientists? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The Northern Athapaskan "berdache" reconsidered : on reading more than there is ...

At the Two Spirit Conference in northern Nevada in June, Native Americans gathered in support of the LGBTQ+ community amid federal and state rollbacks of transgender protections and gender-affirming ...

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis comes out May 13 from Algonquin Books In an exclusive excerpt shared with PEOPLE, a ...

When he went into battle, the famous Lakota leader Crazy Horse would bring a specific person with him to help ensure victory. That person today would be known as a "two-spirit" – or LGBTQ – medicine ...

Arnold Dahl-Wooley, who grew up in northern Minnesota’s small towns and is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, realized as early as kindergarten that he wasn’t crushing on girls like other boys ...

The Arizona Two Spirit Powwow returned to Phoenix on Saturday to spotlight Indigenous LGBTQ+ and two-spirit people for a day of cultural celebration and community. Hosted at South Mountain Community ...

Gender-diverse peoples have always existed. Cultures all over the world recognize gender diversity, including the Isangoma of Zulu Africa; Mahu peoples of Indigenous Hawaii; Kathooey, Bissu and Hijras ...

Arnold Dahl-Wooley, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, concealed his identity as a young man due to societal pressures. Dahl-Wooley later embraced his Two-Spirit identity and now advocates for ...