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Two Spirits: The Role Of Women In Plains Indian Culture

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Two Spirits, formerly called a berdache in anthropological literature, refer to some indigenous North American societies with a particular social status. Female, male, or intersexed person who adopted gender roles that mixed the characteristics of the two other genders (Crapo, 2013 ch 5.3). Common among the men of Plains Indians tribes where warfare was an almost sacred preoccupation and where the male role placed the high emphasis on demonstration of pride, bravery, and daring (Crapo, 2013 ch 5.3). According to the Two Spirit People video, individuals that possess two spirits, both male and female tendencies were seldom shunned by immediate family members. Potentially sustaining the courage to seek others with the same or similar characteristics,

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