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Two-Spirit Pride

Two-Spirit Pride

pride flag with two eagle feathers

Two-Spirit, which is an umbrella term for Native people who have both male and female spirits and acknowledges different gender identities present among Native people of North America. There are also social, spiritual, and community roles for Two-Spirit people within their Native nations, and some Two-Spirit people prefer words from their Indigenous languages for gender variance.

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2021 Pride Celebration Walk

Local Two-Spirits Participate in 2021 Pride Walk

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians held its third annual Pride Celebration Sunday, July 25, at Chief Leschi Schools in Tacoma.

SPS Parent Phoenix Johnson

Phoenix Johnson, a Two Spirit member of the Tlingit and Haida Nation, takes a selfie with Elijah Campbell from the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin at The Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ third annual Pride Celebration Sunday, July 25, at Chief Leschi Schools in Tacoma. The pair were among five event attendees chosen as Puyallup Pride Royalty.

Raven Two Feathers

Raven Two Feathers is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and artist from the Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga and Comanche tribes. Two Feathers, who is trans and Two Spirit, works to advocate for LGBTQ2S+ representation.

Jordan Remington

Jordan Remington, an enrolled member of the Quileute Tribe, stands in front of his art in Capitol Hill, Wash. Remington is a popular Seattle Indigiqueer icon known for performing in his drag persona, Hailey Tayathy.

Rosalie Fish

University of Washington student and athletic advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Rosalie Fish, a Cowlitz Indian Tribe member, says “I don’t try to hide my queer identity from my Indigenous identity because they are not separate.”


artwork of the Indigiqueer Podcast depicting two non-binary Native individuals

“All My Relations” Podcast

Listen to “Indigiqueer” on the All My Relations podcast hosted by Project 562 creator and author Matika Wilbur from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples and Cherokee citizen Adrienne Keene, author of Notable Native People and Native Appropriations

Infographic: What does it mean to be two-spirit?