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Arapaho
Etymology
Sometimes said to mean "rotten bone"; compare hix (“bone”), netoxoneb (“my bone”), hitixoneb (“her or his bone”), and hooxuse' (“it (meat) is rotten”).
Noun
haxu'xan
- male-bodied person who identifies and lives as a woman (and may marry a man)
See also
References
- Alfred Kroeber, The Arapaho (1902): "They are called haxu'xan, which is thought to mean "rotten bone." The following accounts concerning them were obtained. The haxu'xana become so as the result of a (supernatural) gift from animals or birds.
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)