Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 2005, LaFortune co-founded the Two Spirit Press Room (2SPR), a network of journalists and community leaders in the two spirit community. In an interview with the online newspaper NativeOut , LaFortune said the press room was meant to build "media literacy among Native GLBT communities and cultural literacy among journalists, so that the ...
The two-spirit contingent marches at San Francisco Pride in 2013. Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) [a] is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2016. [2] It is the 18th title in the Native History Series published by the press. Methodologically, it combines social science and indigenous oral history. [6]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Shattered Spirits is a 1986 American television drama film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, Matthew Labyorteaux, Lukas Haas, and Roxana Zal. Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. [1]An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, [2] he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Our Spirits Don't Speak English (2008) is a documentary film about Native American boarding schools attended by young people mostly from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. It was filmed by the Rich Heape company and directed by Chip Richie. Native American storyteller Gayle Ross narrated the film.
A new Netflix film, 'True Spirit', follows 16-year-old sailor Jessica Watson's story. Here's what to know about the film and the true story it's based on.