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This is a quick reference list for media professionals. These individuals can speak about issues affecting Two-Spirited Native Americans at the local and national level. They also serve as spokespeople for their particular organizations.
Bay Area American Indians Two-Spirits (BAAITS)
Miko Thomas (Chickasaw Nation), co-chair
1800 Market St., Suite 411
San Francisco, CA 94102-6227
Phone: (415) 865-5616
Email: admin@baaits.org
Website: www.baaits.org
Bay Area American Indians Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirited people within the American Indian community by creating forums for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.
Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina, Inc. (ECSIUT)
Dr. Will Moreau Goins, chief executive officer
P.O. Box: 7062
Columbia, SC 29202
Phone/Fax: (803) 699-0446
Email: TayGoinRes@aol.com
Website: www.cherokeesofsouthcarolina.com/ecsiut.html
The ECSIUT is a statewide organization helping all Native American Indian people in South Carolina, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Native Americans. The ECSIUT-Two-Spirited Project seeks to educate society regarding Native American Indian and "Two-Spirited" histories and traditions, promote Two-Spirit visibility and provide training and outreach to the Native and non-Native communities in South Carolina and the Southeast. ECSIUT also helps the American Indian communities of South Carolina by creating forums for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.
Indigenous Peoples Task Force
1433 East Franklin Ave., Suite 18A
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612) 870-1723
Fax: (612) 870-9532
E-Mail: SharonD@indigenouspeoplestf.org
Website: www.indigenouspeoplestf.org/contact.cfm
The Indigenous Peoples Task Force has been serving Native People Since 1988. We began as the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force with a mission to provide prevention, education, training and direct services to people living with HIV and their family members. In 2000, the Board of Directors revised the mission of the Task Force to include other health and education needs of the community. In January 2001, the Board and staff renamed the task force the Indigenous Peoples Task Force.
Life Foundation
Melanie Moore
Public Relations Coordinator
677 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite 226
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Phone: (808) 521-2437 ext. 252
Fax: (808) 521-1279
Email: melanie@lifefoundation.org
Website: www.lifefoundation.org/
Life Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV and assisting people who are living with HIV and AIDS. Since opening its doors as Hawai'i's first AIDS organization in 1983, the Life Foundation has been implementing innovative programs, such as AIDS case management; school based AIDS education, sterile needle exchange, treatment education and peer-to-peer HIV prevention outreach.
Minnesota Two Spirits
E-mail: mntwospirits@yahoo.com
Website: http://mntwospirits.20m.com/index.html
The Minnesota Two Spirit Community has pockets of organized groups that come and go. There have been support groups, writing groups, drum groups and social groups. We are a group diverse in tribal affiliation, interests and language. What we share in common is the desire to create a safe space for Two Spirit Native people to grow, develop and experience in the security of community.
The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)
Ken Harper, general contact
436-14th St., Suite 1020
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 444-2051
Fax: (510) 444-1593
Email: kharper@nnaapc.org
Website: www.nnaapc.org
The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center's (NNAAPC) mission is to stop the spread of HIV and related diseases among American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians, and to improve the quality of life for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Native American Health Center
160 Capp St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 621-1170
Fax: (415) 255-7527
Email: info@nativehealth.org
Website: www.nativehealth.org
The Native American Health Center – although not a Two-Spirit specific agency – provides primary care, mental health, dentistry, and other services for Native Americans living in the Bay Area. The Native American Health Center, which has an HIV/AIDS program, advocates for the needs of all Indian people, especially the most vulnerable members of our community.
NativeOUT
Corey Taber, co-director
NativeOUT
Phoenix, Ariz.
Phone: (602) 423-7864
Email: info@nativeout.com
Website: www.nativeout.com
NativeOUT, founded in 2004, is a grassroots social organization in Phoenix, Ariz. actively working to build bridges between communities by educating society about our traditions, advocating for relevant issues and promoting LGBT visibility within our community.
NorthEast Two-Spirit Society (NE2SS)
Harlan Pruden, co-founder & councilmember
New York City, NY
Phone: (646) 351-7360
Website: www.ne2ss.org
Email: info@ne2ss.org
NE2SS is an organization created to educate the LGBT and non-LGBT communities regarding indigenous and Two-Spirit histories and traditions; to ensure community cohesion amongst the NorthEast Two-Spirit people through the promotion of health and spiritual wellbeing by sharing our traditions with one another; to outreach and build alliances and coalitions with other community based organizations; to increase the visibility of the Two-Spirit community; and to ensure the Two-Spirit community's needs and concerns are being addressed.
Northwest Two-Spirit Society
PMB 995
1122 E. Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98122-3934
Email: info@nwtwospiritsociety.org
Website: www.nwtwospiritsociety.org/
An organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning Native American community, the Northwest Two-Spirit Society seeks to educate the public regarding First Nations and Two-Spirit histories and traditions, ensure community cohesion through the promotion of health, Two-Spirit visibility, and to provide training and outreach to the Native and non-Native communities of the Northwest.
Oklahoma Gay Natives
Gloria Bellymule Zuniga
1225 Sovereign Row, Suite 103
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73108
Phone: (405) 946-7072
Fax: (405) 946-7651
Email: gzuniga@aaip.com
www.aaip.com/programs/2spirit.html
The Oklahoma Gay Natives, a program of the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP), works to bring together all Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiians who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender or Inter-sexed for the purpose of creating a supportive and active community presence.
Richard LaFortune (also known as Anguksuar)
2512 33rd Ave. S #2
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Phone: (612) 871.0731
Cellular: (612) 267.1682
Email: lafor002@earthlink.net
Website: www.anguksuar.20m.com/
Two Spirit Circle of Edmonton Society
Richard Jenkins, president
Basement, 13332 - 105 St.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T5E 4S5
Phone: (780) 482-4421
Fax: (780) 406-5208
Email: rjenkin1@shaw.ca
Two Spirit Society of Denver
Joey Criddle, director
PO Box 18566
Denver, CO 81213
Phone: (720) 319-0212
Email: joeynco@hotmail.com
Website: www.denvertwospirit.com/
The Two Spirit Society of Denver strives to restore the traditional role of Two-Spirited people. In most Native American history, gay, lesbian and transgender individuals were considered holy and treated with the highest respect. Reclaiming this heritage requires the preservation of Two-Spirit history and traditions among the various Native peoples as well as the re-education of contemporary societies, both native and non-native alike. This task necessitates a network of support for LGBT Natives, community visibility and outreach/educational programs.
Tulsa Two Spirits Society
John Hawk Co-Cke’
Phone: (918) 382-1276
Email:jhawk@ihcrc.org
Website: www.denvertwospirit.com/tulsa.html
The Tulsa Two Spirits Society is an HIV/AIDS project that targets Native American men who have sex with men (MSM). The project provides an HIV/AIDS prevention workshop for positive and negative Native men, a Two Spirit men's group meets monthly, with activities like relationship workshops, healthy sexual workshops and Two Spirit history workshops that instill pride back into Two Spirit men.
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