Yellow Head
(around 1750 - after 1830) U.S.A.
Manitoba Chippewa two-spirit
Ozaw-wen-dib (= The Yellow Head) was a male Chippewa who lived as a woman and had many husbands. He was the son of Ojibwe Chief Wesh-ko-bug (= The Sweet).
In John Tanner's, The Falcon, A Narrative of the Captivity & Adventures of John Tanner (1830), Tanner describes his encounter with this person about 1800:
"...Some time in the course of this winter, there came to our lodge one of the sons of the celebrated Ojibbeway chief, called Wesh-ko-bug, who lived at Leech Lake. This man was one of those who make themselves women, and are called women by the Indians.
There are several of this sort among most, if not all the Indian tribes. They are commonly called A-go-kwa, a word which is expressive of their condition. This creature, called Ozaw-wen-dib, was now near fifty years old and had lived with many husbands."
John Tanner gives also the description of the two-spirit Ozaw-wen-dib's attempt to seduce him.
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