#apihtawikosisan

[lasmaracuyas]

[isumatv]

Excellent writer and activist Apihtawikosisan discusses the Education Reform Act on Al-Jazeera English with Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair.

[atimo-taguy]

Ghostkeeper - 'By Morning'

Ghostkeeper is a progressive folk and blues act from Calgary, Canada. The group takes its name from main songwriter: Shane Ghostkeeper. Their debut album Children of the Great Northern Muskeg was released on Saved by Radio on July 15, 2008 in Canada.[1] The band's second album, titled Ghostkeeper, was released on March 9, 2010 by Flemish Eye Records.[2]

[awretchedgirl]

apihtawikosisan replied to your photo: Cause it’s cool to read a book where the first...

This is the mother of a good friend of my partner’s. Lol round about:)

Ah! I love these sort of coincidences. Someone was telling me that she also wrote a book on Marie-Anne Gaboury which I may look into as well.

[mugworts]

in my parent’s and grandparent’s time, the term berdache was used to refer to indigenous transgendered individuals, but also got used a fair amount to refer to native homosexual men.  It wasn’t the most positive term, and in 1990 during an inter-tribal native american/first nations gay and lesbian conference in winnipeg, the term “two-spirit” was chosen to replace it.

some say that the term was a translation from anishinaabemowin (niizh manidoowag). the term was deliberately chosen to be an umbrella term, a specifically pan-indian concept encompassing sexual, gender and/or spiritual identity.

read the full article here. chelsea vowel runs 'apihtawikosisan' and here discusses the two-spirit identity.