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Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN), page 146: One Stoney winktan exhibited both male and female genitalia ("mentula parva, infra illam cunnus" [a small penis, and beneath it a vulva]), but his general appearence suggested that he was male, since the Cree—among whom he turned up as the wife of a man—took him for a man until the husband enlightened them to the fact that he was a "berdache" (Lowie 1909:42). In contrast to other Assiniboine winktan, this one performed both women's and men's tasks, instead of exclusively women's (Lowie 1909:42). Although he did not undertake a complete gender role change and was intersexual, his Cree husband classified him as a woman-man.
Robert Harry Lowie, The Assiniboine (1909/1910): Berdaches. Berdaches (wiⁿ'yaⁿ iⁿkɛnŭ'ze, or wiⁿktaⁿ') were known to the Assiniboine. They became such as a result of dream revelations to that effect, and were accordingly regarded as wakaⁿ'. They did not marry, and mingled freely among both men and women. They performed all the houshold and industrial work of the female sex, and in conversation employed the affirmative and imperative particles peculiar to women's speech.

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