From Wikipedo, for what it's worth: "It is unclear who first coined the term
two-spirit in English. Pember notes the involvement of non-Native
Will Roscoe who, like his also non-Native mentor
Harry Hay, is involved in the hippie/counterculture gay men's group, the
Radical Faeries,
[13] a "non-Native community that emulates Native spirituality" and engages in other forms of
cultural appropriation:
[14] "Non-Native anthropologist Will Roscoe gets much of the public credit for coining the term two spirit. However, according to Kristopher Kohl Miner of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Native people such as anthropologist Dr. Wesley Thomas of the Dine or Navajo tribe also contributed to its creation. (Thomas is a professor in the School of Dine and Law Studies.)"
[6] More recently, Myra Laramee, (
Anishinaabe) has said that she proposed the term at the 1990 gathering after the phrase came to her in a dream.
[15]"
Harry Hay, by the way, supported NAMBLA.