{"product_id":"reclaiming-two-spirits","title":"Reclaiming Two-Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Gregory D. Smithers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Beacon Press, 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e332 pages, paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom AK Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReclaiming Two\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e–\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpirits\u003c\/em\u003e 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 to save them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by \u003cem\u003eaakíí’skassi\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003emiati\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eokitcitakwe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, \u003cem\u003eReclaiming Two-Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e spans the centuries from Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. \u003cem\u003eReclaiming Two-Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gregory D. Smithers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42502542426230,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5662\/4502\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_2f9189df-40b3-404d-99a2-7cd21a614d5d.jpg?v=1772052111","url":"https:\/\/breadandrosespress.com\/products\/reclaiming-two-spirits","provider":"Bread \u0026 Roses Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}