That Is My Road: Osh-Tisch, Two-Spirit Warrior of the Crow | LGBTQ+ History
They cut her hair and dressed her as a man. Her chief told the agent to leave. Her answer never changed.
Tonight we travel to the northern plains to meet Osh-Tisch of the Crow Nation: a badé, neither man nor woman in Crow tradition, the finest lodge-maker of her generation, a healer, and a warrior who earned her name at the Battle of the Rosebud in 1876.
Along the way: the cool, honey-colored light inside the largest buffalo-hide lodge the Crow ever raised, wild roses along a creek in June, a war party riding home singing, a mirror held in a photographer's studio, a green canvas tipi tied…
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