Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact.

The podcast brings you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Alice.

I'm Irene.

I'm Eli.

And today we're going to be talking about the Crow Warrior, Craftsperson and Bartay Osh-Tish.

We have a few content warnings before we start this episode.

I'm going to use some outdated language for Indigenous people and genders in quotes.

There'll be discussions of war, including injuries and death in war.

And also discussions of the US mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries,

as well as a couple

of mentions of domestic abuse. So if that's anything that you don't want to hear, feel free to skip

this episode and check out any of our other content. I'd just like to start with a disclaimer

that I am not Crow, I'm not Indigenous, and I'm not Two-Spirit. So I've done my best

talking about this culture and this gender, but I've been researching

this for a few weeks, and obviously there's a lot that I won't know. So wherever possible,

I've tried to rely on sources from crow people or failing that source is written by Indigenous

Americans more broadly or by scholars whose work is actively endorsed by those communities. But

if you are Crow or Indigenous or Two-Spirit

and I've messed something up,

please get in touch and let me know and I'll post a correction.

I also wanted to say before I start

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