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- 11:43, 17 April 2008 diff hist +14,117 N Waltrip's "Elmer Gage", 1964 New page: Elmer Gage An extremely rare interview with a homosexual Native American appeared in ONE Magazine in 1965. It is based on a recording made on December 26, 1964, by Bob Waltripi the subjec...
- 11:40, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,355 N Honigman's "Male and female homosexuality", 1964 New page: "Both male and female homosexuality" In his 1964 book, The Kaska IneJians: An Ethnographic Reconstruction, Honigmann writes on Native lesbianism: Female homosexuals simulated copulation ...
- 11:38, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,241 N Legg's "Berdache and Theories of Sexual Inversion", 1959 New page: "The Berdache and Theories of Sexual Inversion" In 1959, W. Dorr Legg discusses the berdache and homosexuality in the ONE Institute Quarterly, a publication of a California "homophile" or...
- 11:35, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,230 N Ford and Beach's "Homosexual Behavior", 1951 New page: "Homosexual Behavior" Ford and Beach's Patterns of Sexual Behavior, published in 1951, devotes one chapter to male and female homosexual activity. The authors collected information on hom...
- 11:33, 17 April 2008 diff hist +668 N Leighton and Kluckhohn's "Hermaphrodites or homosexuals", 1947 New page: "Hermaphrodites or homosexuals" In their 1947 book, Children of the People: The Navaho Individual and His Development, physician leighton and anthropologist Kluckhohn write: In the old ...
- 11:32, 17 April 2008 diff hist +540 N Hill's "Transvestites among the whites", 1943 New page: "Transvestites among the whites" Hill's anthropological study of Navaho humor includes a section on "Humor Based on the Unfamiliar Actions of Foreigners." Hill reports that the clothing o...
- 11:31, 17 April 2008 diff hist +791 N Gifford's "Female transvestites", 1933 New page: "Female transvestites" Gifford's study of "The Cocopa," for the 1933 University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, reports on both mole and female "transves...
- 11:30, 17 April 2008 diff hist +674 N Gifford's "Kamia origin story", 1931 New page: Kamia "origin story" Gifford's study of The Komia of Imperial Valley, published in the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin in 1931, describes a tribal "origin story": The Kamia ancesto...
- 11:29, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,347 N Forde's "Casual secret homosexuality", 1931 New page: "Casual secret homosexuality among both women and men" In his "Ethnology of the Yuma Indians" for the 1931 University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, For...
- 11:25, 17 April 2008 diff hist +26 Spier's "Transvestites or berdaches", 1930
- 11:25, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,319 N Spier's "Transvestites or berdaches", 1930 New page: "Transvestites or berdaches" In his work on "Klamath Ethnography,'1 for the 1930 Upiversity of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Spier writes a section on "Tr...
- 11:22, 17 April 2008 diff hist +63 McMurtrie's "Legend of Lesbian Love", 1914
- 11:21, 17 April 2008 diff hist +3,053 N McMurtrie's "Legend of Lesbian Love", 1914 New page: "A Legend of Lesbian Love among the North American Indians" In a medical journal article, Dr. D. C. McMurtrie, an American physician who wrote extensively on homosexuality, discusses Robe...
- 11:19, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,394 N Karsch-Haack's "Same-Sex Life of Primitive Peoples", 1911 New page: A professor of zoology at the University of Berlin, Ferdinand Karsch-Haack (1853-1936) was on early member of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the German homosexual emancipation orga...
- 11:17, 17 April 2008 diff hist +59 Carpenter's "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk", 1911
- 11:16, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,268 N Carpenter's "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk", 1911 New page: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds were the two pioneering figures in the early English homosexual emancipation movement. Citing the research on homosexuality among "primitive" pe...
- 11:15, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,086 N Lowie's "She eloped with her sister-in-law", 1909 New page: Lowie's essay on The Assiniboine, published by the American Museum of Natural History in 1909, reports an Assiniboine legend involving Lesbianism, which this anthropologist had noted durin...
- 11:12, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,196 N Westermarck's "Homosexual Love", 1908 New page: The year 1908 saw the publication of one of the major early documented historical surveys in English on worldwide manifestations of homosexuality-Edward Westermarck's chapter on "Homosexua...
- 11:09, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,001 N Lowie's "One surviving berdache", 1907-12 New page: In a discussion of the Social Life of the Crow Indians, based on research dating to 1907-12, Lowie records: At present there is but one surviving berdache, who lives in the Bighorn Distri...
- 11:07, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,577 N Simms's "He compelled these people to wear men's clothing", 1902 New page: Research dating to 1902 is the basis for a note by S. C. Simms on "Crow Indian Hermaphrodltes" in the 1903 American Anthropologist. During a visit last year to the Crow reservation, in th...
- 11:04, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,386 N Jones' "They Played the Harlot with Each Other", 1901-02 New page: In a rare report concerning Lesbianism among Native Americans, in a study of “Fox Texts," based on information obtained in 1901-02, William Jones, includes a section of "Parables," the s...
- 11:02, 17 April 2008 diff hist +13,782 N Stevenson's "Death caused universal regret", 1896-97 New page: '''1896-97:''''''Matilda Coxe Stevenson''' '''A death which caused universal regret''' Anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson, in a report on "The Zuni Indians..." based on fieldwork datin...
- 11:01, 17 April 2008 diff hist +4,710 N Holder's "A Peculiar Sexual Perversion", 1899 New page: '''1899:''''''A.B. Holder''' '''A Peculiar Sexual Perversion''' An article by a physician, Dr. A. B. Holder of Memphis, Tennessee, titled "The Bote. Description of A Peculiar Sexual Perve...
- 11:00, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,338 N Trumbull's "Brothers by adoption", 1876 New page: In his book on Friendship the Master-Passion Or The Nature And History Of Friendship, And Its Place As A Force In The Worlel, first published in 1892, H. Clay Trumbull describes an event o...
- 10:59, 17 April 2008 diff hist +10,987 N Denig's "Biography of Woman Chief", 1855-56 New page: '''1855-56:''''''Edwin T Denig''' '''Biography of Woman Chief''' Denig's ìBiography of Woman Chief," written in 1855-56, is one of the rare documents of female role reversal, excluding c...
- 10:57, 17 April 2008 diff hist +14,622 N Devereux's "Case of Sahaykwisa", 1850-1895 New page: Dr. Devereux, a Freudian-oriented psychiatrist who has written on homosexuality for many years, in 1937 first published his long study, "Institutionalized Hernesexuality of the Mohave Indi...
- 10:56, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,930 N Parkman's "Romantic friendships", 1846 New page: Parkman's famous narrative of his 1846 journey on the Oregon Trail refers to a "romantic" 'friendship between two male Sioux, Rabbit and Hail-Storm, one of the rare allusions to male-male ...
- 10:55, 17 April 2008 diff hist +999 N De Smet's "A woman dreamt she was a man", 1841 New page: The Jesuit Father de Smet's "Personal Observations Made during Many Thousand Miles of Travel" among the "Wild Tribes of the North American Indians," in 1841, discusses the Natives' beliefs...
- 10:54, 17 April 2008 diff hist +2,181 N Catlin's "Dance to the Berdashe", 1832-39 New page: Artist George Catlin's Letters and Notes on the Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians, written during his eight years of travel among the Native Americans (1832-39), contain...
- 10:53, 17 April 2008 diff hist +3,108 N Tanner's "those who make themselves women", 1830 New page: As a boy, in about 1790, Tanner was captured by Indians in Kentucky. Adopting Native customs, he lived most of his life in the Northern woods. He was for some years employed as an interpre...
- 10:52, 17 April 2008 diff hist +870 N McCoy's "His presence was so disgusting", 1828 New page: McCoy, author of a History of the Baptist Indian Missions, visited the Osage in about 1828, and writes: . Among some of the uncultivated tribes to the north, there are instances, though r...
- 10:50, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,556 N McKenney's "What they call a man-woman", 1826 New page: In a letter of August 4, 1826, published in his Sketches of a Tour to The Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, ... McKenney writes: My Dear *' *' *' I had hoped t...
- 10:49, 17 April 2008 diff hist +819 N Keating's "Numerous stories of hermaphrodites", 1823 New page: Keating's Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River . . . in the Year 1823, ... under the Command of Stephen H. long ... reports the religious beliefs of a Native named...
- 10:48, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,077 N James and Say's "Sodomy is commonly committed", 1819-20 New page: In his Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains in the Years 1819 and '20 ... Edwin James quotes a member of the expedition, T. Say, "who had spent some time among t...
- 10:46, 17 April 2008 diff hist +16,998 N Schaeffer's "Kutenai Female Berdache", 1811 New page: A rare, detailed history of a female berdache among the Kutenai Indians of western Montana and neighboring parts of Idaho and Britisn Columbia describes her variously as a courier, guide, ...
- 10:44, 17 April 2008 diff hist +739 N Biddle's "Men Dressed in Squars Clothes", 1804-10 New page: The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expeditions ... contains diary notes by Nicholas Biddle which report of the Mandan Indians thct on Saturday, December 22, 1804, a number of Sq...
- 10:43, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,080 N Henry and Thompson's "Cannot persuade him", 1801 New page: The manuscript journals of Henry and Thompson describe their Exploration and Adventure among the Inaians on the Red, Saskatcheuan, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers. An entry of January 2. 180...
- 10:42, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,533 N Palou's "Abominable vice will be eliminated", 1777 New page: Palou's biography of Junipero Serra and of the nine Franciscan missions founded in California was published in Mexico, where Palou himself was a missionary. In a chapter on the "Founding o...
- 10:40, 17 April 2008 diff hist +887 N Font's "dedicated to nefarious practices", 1775-76 New page: The diary of Jesuit Father Font, written during his second journey to California, with the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza, 1775-76, says of the California natives: Among the women I ...
- 10:39, 17 April 2008 diff hist +536 N Bossu's "Most are addicted to sodomy", 1751-62 New page: Bossu's work in French, translated as Travels in the Interior of North America, 1751-1762, speaks of sodomy and "perversion" among the Choctaws. The people of this nation are generally of...
- 10:38, 17 April 2008 diff hist +934 N Loskiel's "Unnatural sins", 1750 New page: Loskiel's History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America, published in German in 1789 and in English in 1794, is based upon detailed reports by two missio...
- 10:38, 17 April 2008 diff hist +79 Charlevoix's "Effeminacy and lewdness", 1721
- 10:37, 17 April 2008 diff hist +990 N Charlevoix's "Effeminacy and lewdness", 1721 New page: Charlevoix's Journal of a Voyage to North America... contains a letter this Jesuit explorer and historian wrote in July 1721 concerning the tribes of the Seven Nations, especially the Iroq...
- 10:36, 17 April 2008 diff hist +65 Lafitau's "Men Who dress as women", 1711-17
- 10:35, 17 April 2008 diff hist +5,616 N Lafitau's "Men Who dress as women", 1711-17 New page: Lafitau's Customs of the American Savages, Compared with the Customs of Ancient Times, is based on his own experience as a Jesuit missionary in French Canada (1711-17), and on his readings...
- 10:31, 17 April 2008 diff hist -4 Liette's "The sin of sodomy prevails", 1702
- 10:31, 17 April 2008 diff hist +1,379 N Liette's "The sin of sodomy prevails", 1702 New page: The Memoir of Pierre Liette on the Illinois Country," written in 1702 at the end of a four-year sojourn at Chicago, reports of the Miamis: The sin of sodomy prevails more among them than ...
- 10:29, 17 April 2008 diff hist +911 N Marquette's "They pass for Manitous", 1673-77 New page: Jesuit Father Marquette's account of his first voyage down the Mississippi in 1673-77 declares: I know not through what superstition some Ilinois, as well as some Nadouessi, while still y...
- 10:28, 17 April 2008 diff hist 0 Pareja's "Confessional", 1593-1613
