Indigenous Masculinity and Gender with Lost Sioux
Content Warning: We’re talking about personal stories of sexual
assault, violence and racism in this video.
These can be intense, so please check in
with yourself.
Kicking off my masculinity interview series, we talked with Lost Sioux of the Sioux Nation. You can find sioux on / lostsioux
If you would like to catch these interviews live, follow me on / lumirue
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Chapters:
0:00 Hook & Content Warning
1:16 Introductions and Background on LostSioux
4:12 Indigenous Family, Being stolen, "adopted"
7:33 Prison, Elders and Social "helpers"
10:13 Reconnecting w/ the Sioux, Indigenous Gender, Two-Spirit
17:15 Reconnecting w/ Indigeneity in prison, Reservations
23:30 Imperialist Colonization Old&Ongoing: Trade, Treaties, Casinos, Alcohol, Substances, Residential Schools.
27:55 Sharing circles, pow-wows in prison vs in the free world.
32:50 Barriers, Challenges. Alcoholics Anonymous Bikers
44:00 Matrilineal not Matriarchal, Masculinity, Sexuality, Pronouns, Identity
1:13:19 Two-Spirit, and Q&A start:
1:17:04 Advice for connecting w/ one's tribe
1:34:18 Trans Appreciation of Two-Spirit culture
1:44:40 Non-indigenous ppl immersing w/ a nation/tribe non-invasively
1:48:13 Parting words; more on gender: masculinity&femininity
1:53:50 OUTRO; Support twitch.tv/lostsioux