In recent decades, many LGBTQ Indigenous people have begun using the umbrella phrase 'two-spirit,' while others are embracing terms from their own nations, in their own languages.
McLeod was there, too. Long thought of as a "granny" by two-spirit people in Manitoba — and across Canada — McLeod helped form one of the first queer Indigenous groups in the country: the Nichiwakan Native Gay Society, based out of Vancouver.
McLeod grew up in Manitoba and comes from a Scottish and Northern Cree background. He knew from an early age he was gay and found it hard to navigate society with his identity. At the time, he was surrounded by notions from the church that being gay was negative. But McLeod says because of the concentration of Indian Residential Schools and day schools on the Prairies, many of the traditional ways of describing Indigenous 2SLGBTQ people have been lost.
Siihasin Názbaa, a Diné two-spirit water protector who uses the term, says the nation believes all individuals should strive for a balance between the masculine and feminine energies.
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