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Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

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Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

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.


Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors 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.

Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by
aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, 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.

Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling,
Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from 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—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.

Review:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get it!

D. · August 24, 2024

If you’re on the fence about getting this- do it. The writer feels like they’re talking right to you. Amazing information as well. 10/10.-Higuayagua Taino of the Caribbean

5.0 out of 5 stars Can’t wait to finish it!

B. · November 10, 2022

I’ve been waiting on this title to arrive for so long, and will devour it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative and important

H.L.H. · May 18, 2024

This is a deep dive into indigenous queer history with a ton of important facts around different practices and beliefs, origins, and modern interpretations. It's an important piece of research into the intersection of the indigenous community and the queer community.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great

T.K. · July 9, 2024

I really enjoyed this book. It explored a topic I knew little about: the Native history of gender and sexual fluidity and diversitySmithers does a great job of unpacking this history and showing our Native communities came together throughout colonial expansion and violence to shield and protect their legacies of kinship, knowledge, community, and diversity in gender and sexual expression. Like the world itself, gender and sexuality are dynamic, changing, and fluid.Two-spirit is an ever-evolving term and Smithers tracks its development and, ultimately, contested nature. Highly recommended!

1.0 out of 5 stars Not from the source

F.H. · March 3, 2025

Not written by an Indigenous Two Spirit person. Unable to return and be refunded.

1.0 out of 5 stars A lack of

M.D.K. · May 24, 2025

The whole “2 spirit” thing is a lie and distortion of history, it is NOT some ancient tribal idea belonging to America’s indigenous peoplesThe truth is that this “2 spirit” garbage was invented by far left, radical, gender ideologues in the 1990sThis book is merely propaganda disguised as research and history

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, interesting

K. · June 27, 2023

Really informative, well-researched, helps show that gender and sexual diversity is not a modern invention and had been accepted and celebrated in many non wester-European societies historically. Good narrator for the audiobook version.

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

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Product ID: U0807003468
Condition: New

4.4

Type: Hardcover

AED17800

Price includes VAT & Import Duties
Availability: In Stock

Quantity:

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Imported From: United States

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Description:

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

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.


Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors 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.

Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by
aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, 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.

Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling,
Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from 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—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.

Review:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get it!

D. · August 24, 2024

If you’re on the fence about getting this- do it. The writer feels like they’re talking right to you. Amazing information as well. 10/10.-Higuayagua Taino of the Caribbean

5.0 out of 5 stars Can’t wait to finish it!

B. · November 10, 2022

I’ve been waiting on this title to arrive for so long, and will devour it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative and important

H.L.H. · May 18, 2024

This is a deep dive into indigenous queer history with a ton of important facts around different practices and beliefs, origins, and modern interpretations. It's an important piece of research into the intersection of the indigenous community and the queer community.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great

T.K. · July 9, 2024

I really enjoyed this book. It explored a topic I knew little about: the Native history of gender and sexual fluidity and diversitySmithers does a great job of unpacking this history and showing our Native communities came together throughout colonial expansion and violence to shield and protect their legacies of kinship, knowledge, community, and diversity in gender and sexual expression. Like the world itself, gender and sexuality are dynamic, changing, and fluid.Two-spirit is an ever-evolving term and Smithers tracks its development and, ultimately, contested nature. Highly recommended!

1.0 out of 5 stars Not from the source

F.H. · March 3, 2025

Not written by an Indigenous Two Spirit person. Unable to return and be refunded.

1.0 out of 5 stars A lack of

M.D.K. · May 24, 2025

The whole “2 spirit” thing is a lie and distortion of history, it is NOT some ancient tribal idea belonging to America’s indigenous peoplesThe truth is that this “2 spirit” garbage was invented by far left, radical, gender ideologues in the 1990sThis book is merely propaganda disguised as research and history

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, interesting

K. · June 27, 2023

Really informative, well-researched, helps show that gender and sexual diversity is not a modern invention and had been accepted and celebrated in many non wester-European societies historically. Good narrator for the audiobook version.

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