Aleut: Male-bodied Ayagigux’ (“man transformed into a woman”)
Female-bodied Tayagigux’ (“woman transformed into a man”)
Arapaho: Male-bodied Haxu’xan (singular), Hoxuxuno (plural) (“rotten bone”)
Arikara: Male-bodied Kuxa’t
Assiniboine: Male-bodied Winton
Bannock: Male-bodied Tuva’sa (“sterile”)
Bella Coola: Male-bodied Sx’ints (“hermaphrodite”)
Blackfoot, Southern Peigan: Male-bodied Aakíí’skassi (“acts like a woman”)
Female-bodied Saahkómaapi’aakííkoan (“boy-girl”) [ *strictly a nickname given to Running Eagle* ]
Cheyenne: Male-bodied He’eman (singular), He’emane’o (plural) (he’e = “woman”)
Female-bodied Hetaneman (singular), Hatane’mane’o (plural) (hetan = “man”)
Chickasaw, Choctaw: Male-bodied Hoobuk
Chumash: Male-bodied Agi
Cocopa: Male-bodied Elha (“coward”)
Female-bodied Warrhameh
Coeur d’Alene: Female-bodied St’amia (“hermaphrodite”)
Cree: Male-bodied Aayahkwew (“neither man or woman”)
Crow: Male-bodied Bote/Bate/Bade (“not man, not woman”)
Dakota/Lakota/Nakota (Oyate): Male-bodied Winkte, a contraction of winyanktehca. (‘wants’ or ‘wishes’ to be [like a] woman”).
Female-bodied Bloka egla wa ke (“thinks she can act like a man”) [ editor’s note: cited by Beatrice Medicine, its age unknown ]
Flathead: (Interior Salish) Male-bodied Ma’kali
Gros Ventre: Male-bodied Athuth
Hidatsa: Male-bodied: Miati (“to be impelled against one’s will to act the woman,” “woman compelled”)
Hopi: Male-bodied: Ho’va
Illinois Male-bodied: Ikoueta Female-bodied: Ickoue ne kioussa (“hunting women”)
Ingalik Male-bodied: Nok’olhanxodeleane (“woman pretenders”) Female-bodied: Chelxodeleane (“man pretenders”)
Inuit Male-bodied: Sipiniq (“infant whose sex changes at birth”)
Juaneno Male-bodied: Kwit
Karankawa Male-bodied: Monaguia
Keresan, Acoma Male-bodied: Kokwi’ma
Laguna Male-bodied: Kok’we’ma
Klamath Male-/Female-bodied: Tw!inna’ek
Kutenai Male-bodied: Kupatke’tek (“to imitate a woman”) Female-bodied: Titqattek (“pretending to be a man”)
Kumeyaay, Tipai, Kamia Female-bodied: Warharmi
Luiseno, San Juan Capistrano Male-bodied: Cuit Mountain– Male-bodied: Uluqui
Mandan Male-bodied: Mihdacka (mih-ha = “woman”)
Maricopa Male-bodied: Ilyaxai’ (“girlish”) Female-bodied: Kwiraxame
Mescalero Apache Male-bodied: Nde’isdzan (“man-woman”)
Miami Male-bodied: Waupeengwoatar (“the white face,” possibly the name of a particular person who was two-spirit)
Micmac Male-bodied: Geenumu gesallagee (“he loves men,” perhaps correctly spelt ji’nmue’sm gesalatl)
Miwok Male-bodied: Osabu (osa = “woman”)
Mohave Maled-bodied: Alyha (“coward”) Female-bodied: Hwame
Western Mono Male-bodied: Tai’up
Navajo Male-/female-/intersexed-bodied: Nadleeh or nadle (gender class/category), nadleehi (singular), nadleehe (plural) (“one in a constant state of change,” “one who changes,” “being transformed”)
Nisenan: (Southern Maidu) Male-bodied: Osa’pu
Ojibwa (Chippewa): Male-bodied Agokwa (“man-woman”) Female-bodied: Okitcitakwe (“warrior woman”)
Omaha, Osage, Ponca: Male-bodied: Mixu’ga (“instructed by the moon,” “moon instructed”)
Otoe, Kansa (Kaw): Male-bodied Mixo’ge (“instructed by the moon,” “moon instructed”)
Papago (Tohono O’odham), Pima (Akimel O’odham): Male-bodied Wik’ovat (“like a girl”)
Paiute: Northern Male-bodied: Tudayapi (“dress like other sex”) Southern Male-bodied: Tuwasawuts
Patwin: Male-bodied Panaro bobum pi (“he has two [sexes]”)
Pawnee: Male-bodied: Ku’saat
Pomo: Northern Male-bodied: Das (Da = “woman”) Southern Male-bodied: T!un
Potawatomi Male-bodied: M’netokwe (“supernatural, extraordinary,” Manito plus female suffix)
Quinault Male-bodied: Keknatsa’nxwixw (“part woman”) Female-bodied: Tawkxwa’nsixw (“man-acting”)
Salinan Male-bodied: Coya
Sanpoil Male-bodied: St’a’mia (“hermaphrodite”)
Sauk (Sac), Fox Male-bodied: I-coo-coo-a (“man-woman”)
Shoshone: Male-bodied Taikwahni tainnapa’ or sometimes taikwahni
Female-bodied Taikwahni wa’ippena’
Lemhi: Male/Female-bodied: Tubasa Female-bodied: Waipu sungwe (“woman-half”)
Gosiute Male-bodied: Tuvasa
Promontory Point Male-bodied: Tubasa waip (“sterile woman”), Female-bodied: Waipu sungwe (“woman-half”)
Nevada Male-bodied: Tainna wa’ippe (“man-woman”) Female-bodied: Nuwuducka (“female hunter”)
Takelma Male-bodied: Xa’wisa
Tewa Male-/Female-bodied: Kwido
Tiwa Isleta Male-bodied: Lhunide
Tlingit Male-bodied: Gatxan (“coward”)
Tsimshian Noots; Plural g̱a̱noots; Dialectal Variant g̱a̱noodzit
Southern Ute: Male-bodied Tuwasawits
Winnebago: (Ho-Chunk) Male-bodied Shiange (“unmanly man”)
Wishram: Male-bodied Ik!e’laskait
Yuma (Quechan): Male-bodied: Elxa’ (“coward”)
Female-bodied Kwe’rhame
Yup’ik Chugach/Pacific (Alutiiq, Southern Alaskan): Male-bodied Aranu’tiq (“man-woman”)
St. Lawrence Island (Siberian Yup’ik, Western Alaskan): Male-bodied Anasik
Female-bodied Uktasik
Kuskokwim River (Central Alaskan): Male-bodied Aranaruaq (“woman-like”)
Female-bodied Angutnguaq (“man-like”)
Zapotec: Male-bodied Muxe
Zuni: Male-bodied: Lha’mana (“behave like a woman”)
Female-bodied: Katotse (“boy-girl”)
Citation: “Two- Spirit.” Internet Archive Wayback Machine. N.p., n.d. Web
