Tewa

Noun

kwido

1. a person (of either sex) who belongs to a third gender or is transgender (historically regarded as having special spiritual power, and able to enter into relationships with cisgender men or women, or with other kwidos)

See also

• two-spirit

References

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (ISBN 0292777957, 2010): Tewa kwidos of both sexes had sexual relationships with women, men, and other kwidos (Jacobs 1983:460). This is unusual; women-men and men-women rarely entered into relationships of this kind with each other. […] [Two-spirits] were regarded as esteemed persons with special spiritual powers by the Arapaho, Assiniboine, […] Yuma, Tewa, and, at one time, also the Yuki.
• Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang, Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity (ISBN 0252066456, 1997)