After watching the movie Two-Spirits, answer the questions below. As always, be specific in your answers –
fully explain with details. Point Assessment as follows:
1.) What type of kinship (descent) did the Navajo (or Dine) have before their family construction was changed
due to colonization?
2.) What are the categories of gender that exist in Navajo (Dine) culture? (2 Points)
3.) Fred Identifies as BOTH “gay” in the American sense and “nadleehi” in the Navajo sense. Which meanings
do the identity category of “gay” (an American category) and the identity category of “nadleehi” (a Navajo
category) share? In other words, in what ways are they the same in terms of the meanings attributed to these
categories?
4.) What makes the meanings that construct the two identity categories of “gay” (an American category) and
“nadleehi” (a Navajo category) different? In other words, in what ways are they different in terms of the
meanings attributed to these categories?
5.) Based on what you described above, what does Fred’s murder have to do with the way the United States
constructs gender/sexual orientation? In other words, how did the way the United States’ constructs the
interface of gender and sexual orientation influence Fred being murdered?
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