This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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Yet another variation on the initialism: LGBTQIASB+
I've been pleased recently to start hearing and seeing another variation on the "LGBT" initialism here in Australia: LGBTQIASB+ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex Asexual Sistergirl...
I've been pleased recently to start hearing and seeing another variation on the "LGBT" initialism here in Australia: LGBTQIASB+
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Lesbian
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Gay
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Bisexual
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Transgender
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Queer
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Intersex
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Asexual
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Sistergirl
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Brotherboy
The latter two terms, "sistergirl" and "brotherboy", are Aboriginal Australian words for people who are gender non-conforming. This includes transgender people as we westerners understand "transgender", but the terms are more inclusive than that. This article explains it better than I possibly could.
The reason I'm so pleased to see this new variation on the LGBT initialism is because the only other variation which includes First Peoples I've seen is the American one that uses "2S" for these (from "two-spirit"). The first time I saw that (and every other time, to be honest), I felt this was highly parochial and exclusive - which is the opposite of what the initialism should be. So now I'm glad there's a Down Under version, which includes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Are there any other local variations like this?
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Cleveland Indians change name to Guardians
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Truth and Native American epistemology
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Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region
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America's first pastime
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The Kenyan Maasai who once hunted lions are now their saviors
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Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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C.O.F.F.I.N - White Dog (2018)
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Historic change to Advance Australia Fair, Australia's national anthem, in the 'spirit of unity'
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Woolworths set to build one of Australia's biggest liquor stores near dry Darwin Aboriginal communities
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IsumaTVIBC Independent Inuit Broadcasting
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EPA grants Oklahoma control over tribal lands
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The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors
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Murders, megaprojects and a 'new Panama Canal' in Mexico
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US Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
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Anne Barton, the great-granddaughter of Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton, has thrown her support behind a campaign to remove his statue from an Indigenous burial site
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Indigenous chief says RCMP beat him up and manhandled his wife over expired licence plate
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The New South Wales Police Minister has labelled anyone who attends a protest during the coronavirus pandemic as "certifiably insane"
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage
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US tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos
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173 years on, Irish donors thank Native Americans
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Tribes along India-Myanmar border dream of a 'united Nagaland'
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Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes
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New DC comic book superhero Thylacine is an Indigenous Australian from the Pilbara
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Sweden's climate solution is now the Sámi people's problem – winters are becoming warmer and climate change is making conditions for the reindeer unsafe
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An Australian company which holds the rights to reproduce the Aboriginal design on flags and banners is a step closer to suing the seller of a reworked flag for alleged copyright infringement
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The most critical fight against Donald Trump's US border wall you've never heard of
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High Court rules Aboriginal people cannot be deported for criminal convictions, cannot be 'alien' to Australia
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Connecticut school board reinstates mascot Native Americans called demeaning
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Sweden has been criticized by the UN for failings when it comes to the rights of the indigenous Sámi people
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Norway gives Sámi names to distant star and planet as part of the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union
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In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
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What once seemed impossible is now undeniable: The Redskins have lost Washington
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How bison create the spring : Indigenous groups are leading efforts to reintroduce free-roaming buffalo throughout their lands
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