Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

throughout time.

I'm Alice.

I'm Irene.

And I'm Eli.

And today we're talking about the Crow warrior and leader known as Biawachachish, or Woman Chief.

Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Wurundry Woyurang people as the traditional

owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay my respect to their elders past

and present.

They're the custodians of an oral tradition far older than this podcast.

I have a few content warnings before we get started on this episode.

We're going to be talking about war, including the taking of prisoners and death in war, though not in any

graphic detail. We're also going to be discussing historical and modern sexism, queer phobia,

and racism against native people in America. If any of that sounds like something you don't want to

hear, feel free to skip this episode and check out our other episodes.

Before we begin, I want to make a couple of notes about names and the names are going to be using

in this episode.

It's common practice when speaking English to translate the literal meanings of indigenous

American names into their English equivalents.

So, Beowachius is often referred to as woman chief, and that's the literal translation of her name.

I tried to do some research into this practice of translating Native American names and to read

some indigenous people's opinions about it. I wasn't able to find very much at all.

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