Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Tongva the first book to take

the first book to take an in-depth look at contemporary American Indian gender diversity

While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants

Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike

and beyond

Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Tongva the first book to takeA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations. Reclaiming Two Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order