Comparison of Indian Hijras and North American Two Spirit People

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Question 4
The similarity social role played by the Indian Hijras and the North American Two Spirit
People is that two-spirit was just a traditional setting and it was concerned with the gender
analysis but not sexually oriented. The role of the two-spirit associations is more associated with
the traditional setting of understanding. In both Indian Hijras and the North American Two
Spirit People acted as the mediators in the societies. They were categorized as the social workers
who were peacemakers for every tribe in both Indian Hijras and the North American (Castells,
2012). The people who were lucky and holy in the societies brought their goods for a blessing. In
both Indian Hijras and the North American, two-spirit people marked the girl and boy child
puberty stages. They had to join the war teams for the purpose of spreading good luck for them
to have a victory. They had power to poses love portions in such a way that for those who needed
or sought for their partners, they could get their help in two-spirit people both in Indian Hijras
and the North American.
The difference between the Indian Hijras and the North American Two Spirit People
come in when the native beliefs clashed. The coming of the missionaries changed the mind of the
Indian perspectives to the two-spirit people. They were fed to the dogs by the Indian and the
missionaries. Indian Hiras, unlike North America two-spirit people, were forced to follow the
Christian faith by the missionaries. In Indian two-spirit people men were cut their hair and
forced to dress like men by the missionaries. The women were as well forced to remain only in
women dressing. Children in India were brought to the government school for the study of the
formal education.

In contrary to the Indian Hijras, North America two-spirit people held an intersex belief
in which males were only allowed to marry the females but in the Indian Hijras, the males were
allowed to marry a man. In this case, Indian Hijras allowed the gay marriage before the coming
of the missionaries who separated and dismissed the culture. This is the common term which
gives the definition of North America two-spirit people as berdance as it was given by the early
French explorers (Peoples, & Bailey, 2011). In Indian Hijras, males were allowed to marry the
other men and have sex. In the North America two spirits allowed only the marriage between the
man and the female. Any man who was found guilty had to receive the punishment. The reason
why the North America two communities did not allow the gay practices if due to their
colonizers. North America was dominated by the Spanish who did not allow the sodomites and
gay practices (Lang, 2018). It was seen as a taboo to find a man and have sex with. Many of the
North America two-spirit people had a strong focus on their spiritual gifts. This was contrary to
the Indian Hijras who believed on their traditional way of doing things. Even today, they tend to
focus on basic character of the within their spirit. In fact they convert the spiritual well being in
to traditional practices. Two-spirit people were bought by their spiritual perspective everything
they did was only within the boundaries of their beliefs (Kogan, 2016). Due to the fact that what
really happened to the spiritual people was based on the spiritual world man spirit and women
spirit were only the spiritual gifts they could allow (Sahastrabuddhe, Gupta, Stuart, Godbole,
Ghate, Sahay, & Mehendale, 2012). It was a sense of honor from the American two-spirit people
to have two forms of the spirits.
Similar to the Indian Hijras, two spirits people had the beliefs that their religion was the
best to them and their leaders were seen as the teachers and guides. Some of the similar social
beliefs by the Indian Hijras and the North American Two Spirit People is that two-soul was only