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The two-spirit contingent marches at San Francisco Pride in 2013. Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) [a] is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
Makokis operates a clinic in the Enoch Cree Nation 135 serving the Kehewin and Enoch Cree Nations, [7] [8] and a satellite clinic in Edmonton, Alberta. [3] Makokis is an Indigenous two-spirit person and is particularly noted for treating transgender people from the Cree communities and around the world, with many patients traveling from long distances to see him. [3]
Sherenté Mishitashin Harris, a gender-queer Fancy Shawl dancer, is the subject of documentary 'Being Thunder.' Two-spirit powwow dancer shares the importance of telling all Indigenous stories ...
[12] [13] LaFortune was featured in the 2009 PBS documentary film, Two Spirt, directed by Lydia Nibley. [14] In the film LaFortune speaks about the murder of Fred Martinez, a two spirit teenager, and about the history of discrimination against two spirit people in America. [15]
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The documentary is partly structured as a road movie, with Diamond visiting locations across the United States as well as the Canadian North.In the U.S., he is traveling by "rez car," a broken down automobile often used on Indian Reservations, as demonstrated in Reel Injun with a sequence from the film Smoke Signals.
Buffalo Barbie, 2019's Miss Montana Two-Spirit, dances at the Native Two-Spirit Powwow at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, in March 2019.