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When cultural institutions misframe indigenous identity

The local museum wants to interview me for an exhibit on 'traditional Native gender roles' but they keep asking questions that make our sacred concepts sound like anthropology homework.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Public education efforts often reduce living traditions to historical artifacts, stripping contemporary reality of its sacred and personal dimensions.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Two-spirit and indigenous gender traditions?”

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