He has a male voice, a bit of a deformed nose, and has short neat hair. He explains being “two spirited” in the Zuni culture. He talks about a man who was identified as two spirited and he was raw (is how they were born into the world) and cooked (after a person becomes other than his gender and is not as he or she was born). The two spirited person participates in different activities and later focus on what they want to do; like pottery, weaving etc. And when the person dies he is buried as both genders, that which he identifies as and that which he was born as. He als talks about a child ritual that the Zuni culture practices for children. To them (Zuni), a boy wasn’t required to be warrior, if he wanted to stay home and help with the women he was more than welcome to do that. The boy is then considered Berdache when certain behaviors are was noticed by the mother and grandmother at the ages of 5-7, through the things they liked to do. The mothers and grand mothers start teaching, training and socializing the young boy on what was considered appropriate for a
He has a male voice, a bit of a deformed nose, and has short neat hair. He explains being “two spirited” in the Zuni culture. He talks about a man who was identified as two spirited and he was raw (is how they were born into the world) and cooked (after a person becomes other than his gender and is not as he or she was born). The two spirited person participates in different activities and later focus on what they want to do; like pottery, weaving etc. And when the person dies he is buried as both genders, that which he identifies as and that which he was born as. He als talks about a child ritual that the Zuni culture practices for children. To them (Zuni), a boy wasn’t required to be warrior, if he wanted to stay home and help with the women he was more than welcome to do that. The boy is then considered Berdache when certain behaviors are was noticed by the mother and grandmother at the ages of 5-7, through the things they liked to do. The mothers and grand mothers start teaching, training and socializing the young boy on what was considered appropriate for a