https://medium.com/@organelle/blackfoot-knowledge-ways-character-typing-two-souled-persons-and-mosquitoes-350ee7f4ba0f#.8plxrisnk

I had a very interesting conversation the other morning with my friend Ryan, and I decided to transcribe some of the best parts… we learn a lot together, and there are some surprising revelations in his replies to my questions.

“But with the Hupa, because men and women, like the deer, lived separate for most of the year… so men had men’s houses and women had women’s houses. And only at the Acorn Camp did husbands and wives camp together, in little wigwams, together. But normally, at the village, there were men’s houses and women’s houses. And being gay there was… like 100%. (Calm laughter). And even still today, you go to visit the Hupa, and they are very effeminate men, and vice-versa for the women. Being gay is the norm.”