Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 Lakota the main characters--the friendly Native

the main characters--the friendly Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared

as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson

I am only the Chickadee

Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods

and activist interventions

Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 Lakota the main characters--the friendly NativeGroundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native