Shaped In The Image Of The White Man.

With the expansion of western civilization came the missionaries to destroy indigenous cultures and reshape them according to western ideals.

The surprising history of gay marriage in the Navajo nation
Fusion
By Jorge Rivas
February 23, 2015

Ahead of a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, a parallel debate is raging inside another sovereign nation within U.S. borders: the Navajo nation.

But unlike those in the 50 states, Native Americans who support gay marriage—a coalition of LGBT Navajo, their allies, and even the leading candidate running for the Navajo presidency—have history on their side.

The Navajos have a rich, documented history of accepting and even honoring people that identified with different genders and sexual preferences.

In fact, as recently as 10 years ago, same-sex unions were recognized by the Navajos.
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“Historically our society was more accepting of a person who was nádleehí,” said Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, a University of New Mexico associate professor and a member of the Navajo Humans Rights Commission.

Anthropologist W. W. Hill noted Navajo nádleehí indivudals were associated with wealth and that the families they were born in to were considered fortunate. But that began to change. In her research, Denetdale has traced Hill writing about seeing a change in 1930 when he saw Navajo schoolboys “scoffing” at a nádleehí individual. After the nádleehí tribe member heard the ridiculing, Hill noted, he changed from women’s clothing in to male clothing.

Scholars say the introduction of more conservative views came after European churches came in and offered a different set of beliefs and the U.S. forced Native Americans to relocate and attend U.S. schools.

There is an effort to bring back their culture,

If the activists are successful and push the Navajo Nation to lift the ban on gay marriage, could have a sweeping effect. The Navajo nation is the largest of the 566 federally recognized tribes and smaller tribes look to see how they handle their policies.

This destruction of indigenous cultures is still going on today around the world where missionaries go in to villages and take their children to "educate" them in their beliefs. It is not limited to Christians missionaries but just about every religion is doing this in Africa, Asia, South and Central America.