Facilitating Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Indigenous Youth to Grow into Resilience through Cultural Intersections
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This paper explores how transgender youth can grow into resilience through
the mixture of cultural intersections (concept of Métissage) on the history of Two Spirit (TS)
people, Navajo culture, and the Alaskan Two Spirit Braided Resiliency Framework, which can
help transgender youth to develop their own conception of gender beautifully.
First, Western research on the risk factors and protective factors of SGM youth will be
examined. Second, the concept of Métissage will be explained in the context of the Canadian
Indian Residential School Crisis (IRS). Third, the history of Two Spirit (TS) people and Navajo
culture will be explored. Fourth, the two spirit of concept of circularity will be braided into
Maenette Benham AhNee-Benham’s educational leadership model. This circulates as an
Indigenous ecological macro-system circulating resiliency through youths’ meso-systems into
their micro-systems (Masten, 2015, p. 220). Fifth, the Alaskan Two Spirit Braided Resiliency
Framework will braid the strands of this research together enabling transgender youth to develop
their own conception of gender beautifully. Implications for future practice in public institutions
will be provided in an effort to meet these challenges to promote the best practices possible for
helping two spirit and Indigenous transgender youth grow into resilience.
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