Weiwha
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Weiwha (1849-1896) was a Zuni Native American Ihamana, which is the Zuni term for a male-bodied Two-spirit. She was described in the book The Zuni Man-Woman, by Will Roscoe. The anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson wrote a great deal about Weiwha, and even invited him to visit Washington D.C. in 1866, where she met President Grover Cleveland. She was a cultural ambassador for her people, and performed the role of Kolhamana, the androgynous kachina of the Zuni. She died in 1896.
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