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THE TWO SPIRITED FIRST NATIONS REAL NATIVE AMERICAN LGBT People from A girl named ZINNIE I want to tell you of the two-spirited indigenous people of the Apache tribe that were revered and honored like Zinnie and Sam, should be. The people were the Apache Sapatan Payo. They were the spiritual healers and visionaries of the tribe and they also existed in hundreds of other Indian tribes. (Fade to a beautiful scene of North America before Europeans and all its wildlife) In the Lakota tribe they were called the Winkte and were a gift to the tribe. They were the ones who looked after the orphans, just as the two of you are. You are looking after the orphan pups and in turn the wolf guardianship will look after your spirits too. The wolves are our teachers on how we take care of our family.

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THE TWO SPIRITED FIRST NATIONS REAL NATIVE AMERICAN LGBT People

from A girl named ZINNIEI want to tell you of the two-spirited indigenous people of the Apache tribe that were revered and honored like Zinnie and Sam, should be. The people were the Apache Sapatan Payo. They were the spiritual healers and visionaries of the tribe and they also existed in hundreds of other Indian tribes. (Fade to a beautiful scene of North America before Europeans and all its wildlife) In the Lakota tribe they were called the Winkte and were a gift to the tribe. They were the ones who looked after the orphans, just as the two of you are. You are looking after the orphan pups and in turn the wolf guardianship will look after your spirits too. The wolves are our teachers on how we take care of our family.

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A girl named ZINNIE Two spirited The Navajo used the word “nádleehí” to describe people who

embodied both masculine and feminine traits. They were among the hundreds of Native communities that celebrated and revered tribe members who lived outside binary male/female restrictions. As today’s Native communities fight to revitalize the culture that was beaten out of them, gay and transgender Natives are reclaiming this aspect of their ancestry by identifying as two-spirit –- a unifying term that serves as a catch-all for the many variations of sexuality and gender identity. In Lakota language they are called Winkte.

Two-spirit people were seen as a gift in Native American culture, viewed as a third gender with a heightened spiritual connectedness and a significant role to play. However, the forced Western colonization injected tribal communities with strong anti-gay attitudes that, for the most part, continue to reign supreme today. As two-spirits try to reclaim their historical culture, it is vital for the LGBT community to start paying attention to history as well.

I had the honor of speaking with seasoned two-spirit activist Richard LaFortune, whose wisdom made it painfully clear how shortsighted the LGBT civil rights movement has become. While much of the current focus is on the state-by-state status of legal relationship recognition, LaFortune reveals that many Native cultures enjoyed marriage equality for same-sex couples well before European settlers arrived. It isn’t surprising that anti-gay activists didn’t bother to consult Native American history before constantly regurgitating “marriage has always been between one man and one woman” talking points. Real Native Americans were in this country before the first non native European Spaniard Conquestos that came to this country and came to the other Americas-Central and South Americas and killed off 90 percent of Natives and forced them to speak their non native European Spaniard language and where told to shut up about the two spirited culture. The European Spaniard Conquestos were the first Europeans to bring slaves from Africa to the Americas, last the other Europeans which were the English in which they came after the first Europeans Spaniard Conquestos to the rest of North America.