{"product_id":"reclaiming-two-spirits-sexuality-spiritual-renewal-sovereignty-in-native-america-hc","title":"Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal \u0026 Sovereignty in Native America (HC)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eReclaiming Two Spirits by\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGregory Smithers and with a foreword by Raven Heavy Runner, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBlackfeet, decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honours the generations of Indigenous People who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them. This is a sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBefore 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eake’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. With the arrival of European colonizers, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, \u003c\/span\u003eReclaiming Two-Spirits\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003espans from the Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed. \u003c\/span\u003eReclaiming Two-Spirits\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48168977301667,"sku":"mzb1789924191595","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/reclaiming-two-spirits-sexuality-spiritual-renewal-sovereignty-in-native-america_1.jpg?v=1789924195","url":"https:\/\/stretchfitq.shop\/products\/reclaiming-two-spirits-sexuality-spiritual-renewal-sovereignty-in-native-america-hc","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}