Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 Lakota Ask the Brindled

Ask the Brindled

Pauliina Feodoroff

Dual-language (English and Anishinaabemowin) edition

Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents

Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 Lakota Ask the BrindledGroundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native