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Dakota
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]winkta
- a two-spirit; a male-bodied person who has a feminine or third-gender/bigender gender role
Usage notes
[edit]- In the modern era, the term is sometimes applied to male homosexuals as well.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
- Stephen Return Riggs (et al.), A Dakota-English Dictionary
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)