Tuesday, 24 February 2015

The surprising history of gay marriage in the Navajo nation

The surprising history of gay marriage in the Navajo nation


The Navajos have a rich, documented history of accepting and even honoring people that identified with different genders and sexual preferences. Their language has at least one term for tribe members that don’t fit traditional heterosexual roles: nádleehí. Navajo nádleehí indivudals were associated with wealth and the families that they were born in to were considered fortunate. But that began to change.

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