Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this video, members of California Indigenous tribes speak about terms in their indigenous languages that represent the history of gender and sexual variance in Native American California prior to settler colonization. They also speak about contemporary cultural terms, like two-spirit, or queer, with which they may identify.
Produced by Oakland Museum of California.
Thank you to the participants: Joseph Byron, L. Frank Manriquez, Deborah A. Miranda, Donovan, Kenny Ramos, Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Kayla Strickland, and Karen Vigneault.
Additional thanks to Yve Chavez, Nancy Mithlo, the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits, and especially Ruth Villasenor and Rick Bacigalupi, and the Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (AASF).
Filmed on location in California at the Solano Pride Center, Indian Canyon, the Barona Indian Reservation, in private homes in Santa Rosa and San Diego, and in Lexington, Virginia.
In this video, members of California Indigenous tribes speak about terms in their indigenous languages that represent the history of gender and sexual variance in Native American California prior to settler colonization. They also speak about contemporary cultural terms, like two-spirit, or queer, with which they may identify.
Produced by Oakland Museum of California.
Thank you to the participants: Joseph Byron, L. Frank Manriquez, Deborah A. Miranda, Donovan, Kenny Ramos, Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Kayla Strickland, and Karen Vigneault.
Additional thanks to Yve Chavez, Nancy Mithlo, the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits, and especially Ruth Villasenor and Rick Bacigalupi, and the Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (AASF).
Filmed on location in California at the Solano Pride Center, Indian Canyon, the Barona Indian Reservation, in private homes in Santa Rosa and San Diego, and in Lexington, Virginia.
