Two Spirits: A Story Of Life With The Navajo - Softcover

Williams Ph.D., Walter L.; Johnson Ph.D., Toby

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9781590210604: Two Spirits: A Story Of Life With The Navajo

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ISBN 10: 1590210603 ISBN 13: 9781590210604

Publisher: Lethe Press, 2015

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Twenty years after publishing his groundbreaking The Spirit and The Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, anthropologist Walter L. Williams publishes another book on Native Americans, teaming up with award-winning writer Toby Johnson. Together they have produced a work of historical fiction that is striking in its evocation of Native American oppression, but also of insightful Navajo philosophy, spirituality, and gender wisdom. Set in the Civil War era of the 1860s, this novel tells the story of a feckless Virginian who comes West and finds himself captivated by a crossdressing Two-Spirit male shaman, highly respected among the Navajo as spiritual leader and healer. Together the pair help the Navajo return to their sacred homelands. Full of suspense, plot twists, and endearing romance, Two Spirits will captivate readers with its positive approach to life and love and its wonderful ending. The novel is, at once, educational, entertaining, sexy, romantic, mystical, enlightened.

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Two Spirits is an historical novel by Walter L. Williams and Toby Johnson.

With its sweet tale of inter-racial romance between a young Civil War survivor from Virginia and a Navajo berdache/two-spirit healer of the Old West, this novel demonstrates gender variance as a source of spiritual power and documents "same-sex marriage" as indigenous to the American continent.

From the Author:

Both Walter Williams and I have been pleased with the wonderful reviews this book has gotten. Many of them focus on the accuracy of the book and the relative importance of its two collaborating authors in the development of modern gay intellectual/spiritual culture.
What we, the authors, hear from readers is how much they loved the story, and loved the characters. More than one reader has told he he cried in joy at the end. And so many have told us they hated to see the book end. That is something writers love to hear.
This novel really shows a positive and meaningful and spiritual side of gay experience. We're glad to be able to share such a positive portrayal with modern readers.

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