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For Many Native Americans, Embracing LGBT Members Is a Return to the Past

By Katherine Davis-Young — 2019

The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. . . . It was Arizona’s first Two-Spirit Powwow, one of a handful of powwows that have sprung up across North America to celebrate LGBT Native Americans.

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