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SMNTY Classics: Indigenous Women You Need to Know

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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The Last Two Spirit Leaders

In almost all native cultures had two spirit people, but you weren't just a different gender than the one you were assigned at birth. They were also given positions of leadership and were highly respected members of their community. Anstush was the head of the boton the two scrat leaders in her time. She was one of the last two spirit people across all cultures. To be alive. It was effectively wiped out for the most part, between boarding schools and residential schools and sengus, people dying off. And unfortunately, a lot of two spirit people walked on before their turnethecancmedres.

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