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What it is to be a Two-Spirit?
Two-Spirited people have a long history with most of Turtle Island’s Nations. Before first contact with the Europeans, First Nations people across Turtle Island recognized the special people given the responsibility of carrying two spirits. Very often, we were the visionaries, healers, the medicine people. 2-Spirits were respected as vital parts of the societies of our ancestors. There are individuals documented in our history, men who dressed as women and took husbands and of great women warriors who took wives and carried the bow.
Sometimes it meant a dream. A young woman who dreamt of warriors or hunters’ weapon would know her course. Young boys who preferred the company of women, cooking instead of going on the hunt, were also born for a different reason than most. People did not interfere with this. Indeed, this was within the realm of the wisdom of the Creator. The Great Mystery creates all beings for a reason, and two-spirited people are no exception.
~Text borrowed from Gilbert Deschamps in the document "We are part of a Tradition: A guide on two-spirited people for first nations communities"~ Click here to download the whole guide.