Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
82. Did Indigenous people really honor LGBT/Two-Spirit people?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Lisa Poirier [+]
DePaul University
Lisa Poirier is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She lives and works on the traditional lands of the Council of the Three Fires - the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. At DePaul, she teaches classes about Native American religions, theory and method in the study of religion, new religious movements, and gender and sexuality in religion.
Description
The term “Two-Spirit” is relatively new. Dr. Myra Laramee (Fisher River Cree Nation) first shared the term with others at a conference for LGBT First Nations people that was held in Winnipeg in 1990. The term “two-spirit” was subsequently adopted and used by growing numbers of Indigenous people from many different Native nations across North America.