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[Mark Mandel]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> I've seen two-spirit in connection with Native Americans in the US. I
> don't know if it's used outside that context. Wikipedia has it as
> well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_spirit, which says it
> originated in 1990. That seems pretty recent to me. BB

To be precise, the Wikipedia article asserts 1990 origin of the
English "two-spirit", not of its etymon:

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"Two-spirit" originated in Winnipeg, Canada in 1990 during the third
annual intertribal Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian
conference. It is a calque of the Ojibwa phrase niizh manidoowag (two
spirits). It was chosen to distance Native/First Nations people from
non-natives as well as from the words "berdache" and "gay."[6]

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