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Two Spirit Resources

'Fire Song' Shines Spotlight on Gay Teen in First Nation Community
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/fire-song-shines-spotlight-gay-teen-first-nation-community-n684316?fbclid=IwAR2HltTdpCsZo1VGFbyIuU0Y4yVMrrtLVS8eA7_fBhrfr2-Xnw-mtLlGU9Q
“I don’t know if anyone cares about, or wants to watch a film about, suicidal or gay kids in the North.”
-This matters because it is real and it is happening. Our youth matter!
 
New ‘We Matter’ campaign asks youth to submit their definition of two-spirit
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/we-matter-two-spirit-dictionary-campaign-1.5635828?fbclid=IwAR3MyVJCtOBbRGj7gw58x2TaF8XFaoMAJUJZSfV13kwwlYdvEfkK8xPpw1A
The online campaign for two-spirit youth will help create a community.
"It's really important for Indigenous youth, specifically two-spirit LGBTQ+ youth, so they can see themselves in catalogues where things like mental health are being talked about."
 
First Nation raises own Pride flag for 1st time, challenges others to do the same
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/opaskwayak-pride-flag-raising-1.5665118?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR2u9XbX4sQvf8xXWcHHTKIPqiKYgC7EzXGNkC7eJJde3YQi81Ou2h6LkyQ
“It's important for communities to understand how much of an impact residential schools had on Indigenous communities, and the homophobia that has been a result of it.”
 
Research Brief: American Indian/Alaskan Native Youth Suicide Risk
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/11/16/research-brief-american-indian-alaskan-native-youth-suicide-risk/?fbclid=IwAR1dPkTdvd9cbLkl8dp2h82l_UVMdhzrashB7UMfroGWSQyNV4a0w1bZ8KY
Family support and LGBTQ2S+ -affirming schools reduced suicide risk by more than half among American Indian/Alaskan Native LGBTQ youth.
 
Research Brief: American Indian/Alaskan Native Youth Suicide Risk

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/11/16/research-brief-american-indian-alaskan-native-youth- suicide-risk/
 Family support and LGBTQ2S+ -affirming schools reduced suicide risk by more than half among American Indian/Alaskan Native LGBTQ youth. 
​The Healing History Of Two-Spirit, A Term That Gives LGBTQ Natives A Voice
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b37cfbce4b007aa2f809af1?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
In the early 1990s, Little Thunder helped create the term “two-spirit,” an umbrella term for LGBTQ+ Native Americans. She vowed she would not return home “until all of my two-spirit brothers and sisters were welcome.”
Years later, on a cold October night in 2016, Little Thunder sat in car headed south on Highway 1806 from Bismarck, North Dakota. As the car slowed down and pulled up to a security gate at the #NoDAPL resistance camp, the elder rolled down her window and asked a young volunteer where she could find the two-spirit camp. That weekend, Little Thunder and other two-spirit leaders were officially welcomed by the Oceti Sakowin leadership in a grand entry ceremony organized by Lakota activist Candi Brings Plenty. 
It was the first time Little Thunder had been home in 32 years. 

Native American tribe becomes first to pass hate crime law protecting LGBT people
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/30/native-american-tribe-indian-oglala-sioux-two-spirit-hate-crime-lgbt-south-dakota/?fbclid=IwAR3vZSk-Kajplrg8zwupUgurjEB6OlbHGiaMJtoYk9pUxI2vhA7bQ6C1eZg
De Leon said: “I have children and grandchildren. I don’t know how they will identify themselves when they grow up but I want to know they will be safe.”
30 years after coming out, two-spirit elder hopes to inspire others to do the same
HTTPS://WWW.CBC.CA/NEWS/CANADA/MONTREAL/OJIBWE-CREE-ELDER-MA-NEE-CHACABY-PRIDE-MONTREAL-GRAND-MARSHAL-1.5251183?FBCLID=IWAR0MDTNSFTS9B6ELE_W1QAGGEWJVAGHQZN7V2KDWASUK1BZFHB4UR_8SRQW
Ma-Nee Chacaby will be one of the six Grand Marshals leading the parade capping off the week of festivities at Montréal Pride.
 
Two-Spirit Grandmother Advocates to Eliminate Homophobia
http://anishinabeknews.ca/2018/07/30/two-spirit-grandmother-advocates-to-eliminate-homophobia/
Teresa Sims, a Two-Spirit grandmother, is making it her mission to deliver the message that it’s time to eliminate homophobia and allow Two-Spirit people to reclaim their proper place in First Nations’ culture. L to R: Theresa Sims, Lori George, assistant director at Wulaawsuwiikaan Healing Lodge, Jason George, lodge program coordinator.
“Two-Spirit people were accepted and even honoured in the traditions of First Nations, and they should not be afraid to come out and be part of Indigenous society today,” explained Sims.
The concept of being Two-Spirit in that it is not the same as dominant cultural ideas of hetero-, homo-, or bi-sexuality. Two-Spirit people can “see and feel both sides”, but the idea is not all about a person’s sexuality. Two-Spirits can have any sexual orientation, she says, and the idea that these matters are only about sexual preference is not part of Indigenous culture.
 
Two-spirit powwow gives dancers a place to be themselves
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/two-spirit-powwow-beardys-okemasis-june-pride-1.5177776?fbclid=IwAR3m343PQChUvqhIBFbl--4uB8R2Q7aQrbzrQB_87fgmV1qpF7s8pawBF2Y
"This is possible anywhere and that we shouldn't be afraid to be very visible about our acceptance of all LGBTQ folks in our communities. We need to be visible," Saddleback said. 
"We need to be able to showcase to folks that we are a loving environment. That we support one another," he said. "We walk behind them and we let them know that they are protected in our communities, they are loved in our communities and we will not let anything harm them."
 
A Cree Doctor's Caring Approach For Transgender Patients
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/a-cree-doctors-caring-approach-for-transgender-patients?adobe_mc=TS%3D1545575361%7CMCAID%3D289AABB1051D1A1D-4000012B000B6496&adobe_aa_vid=8A3F750E0973004F590ABF907A0B6B9590CE
“If you really want to make a difference in medicine," he recalls Edgar advising him, "why don’t you start doing transgender health because there’s so few physicians who provide medical transitioning for patients? And there’s so many barriers to doing that."
"You will save lives if you do this." Makokis said he was told by Edgar.
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