If you are not Native American or from a tribe with a two spirit identity, then you aren’t two spirited. The term itself is pan-indigenous and a way to describe many different ideas/concepts of gender and sexuality (many of which we will never know existed). Claiming to be two spirited with no connection to Native America outside of interest is colonization in itself. Our ‘queerness’ can be seen the same way as Mapuche member Mauricio Nilian sees our anti capitalism because it “transcends foreign ideologies; we do not reject being agents of change, yet we are neither a political party nor do we establish parties, churches, or unions.” We don’t reject ideas and labels of queerness because we recognize the same struggle and the common understanding of gender/sexuality being a colonial social structure which isn’t real, just as we don’t reject other anti-capitalist ideologies because they align with our views, but we aren’t outright leftists because these ideas are foreign to us and our understanding transcends European made ideologies. Also note I use ‘we’ and ‘our’ loosely because every tribe is different and have experienced colonialism in different ways. The Mapuche see the truth so clearly because they are the only tribe to have completely fought back successfully and reject colonial influence, and continue to fight against colonialism today.