In certain Native American Tribes being a shaman who was both aggressively militant and militantly gay was to be empowered to tap into really authentic occult spiritual forces ...

One might reasonably even suspect demonic ones!

Example:

Before a pivotal battle in December of 1966:

The Indians were "encouraged by a promise of success from a two - souled person or winkte ..."


Snippets from this source: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Pages 3 - 9.

And here's the scene:

December 22, 1866 -- The Sioux are desperately committed "to driving the white soldiers back down the Bozeman Road'" in the vicinity "of Fort Phil Kearney on northern Wyoming.

"The moment had a long history.

"Fort Phil Kearney was the first of three posts established in the early summer of 1866 to protect whites traveling north to the Montana goldfields along a new road named after the man who mapped it ..."

Their initial attempt was futile.

But we're told, because they were "encouraged by a promise of success from a two - souled person or winkte, the Indians organized a second effort on a still larger scale and this time everything was done right..."

Why?

Because:

"After the early failure, the Sioux summoned the aid of the spirit world, giving the task to one of the men called a winkte -- a contraction of the Lakota winyanktehca, or two - souled person, by which was meant a man with womanly qualities..

"Berdache was the Cheyenne word.

"A winkte was not a hermaphrodite, as some early writers would have it but an effeminate man -- in fact a homosexual..

"The Sioux were of two minds about winktes but considered them mysterious (wakan), and called on them for certain kinds of magic or sacred power.

"On December 20, 1866, the Sioux, preparing another attack on the soldiers at Phil Kearney, dispatched a winkte on a sorrel horse on a symbolic scout for the enemy...

"He rode with a black cloth over his head, blowing a sacred whistle made from the wing bone of an eagle as he dashed back and forth over the landscape, then returned to a group of chiefs with his fists clenched and saying I have ten men, five in each hand -- do you want them?"

In short, the chiefs said NO!

"When he came back a fourth time he shouted Answer me quickly -- I have a hundred or more ..

"[T]he Indians begin to shout and yell, and after the battle the next day, it was often called The Battle of a Hundred in the Hand ..."

In case anyone is wondering, the white man lost.

Big time! :)