Bowdash
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Bowdash (also called Bundash or Water-sitting Grizzly) was a titqattek (tribal term for a female two-spirit) of the Kootenai Native American tribe. She travelled extensively, sometimes with one of her wives, and acted as a guide for white people in the early to middle 19th century. She is described by oral tradition as a being a mediator, messenger, prophet and warrior. Her death is described as supernatural, as story relating it describes how her wounds would close up when her enemy cut her with knives and that her enemy finally had to cut out her heart to kill her. Salmonson speculates that this is an exaggeration of the fact that she was probably extremely difficult to kill.
References
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda.(1991) The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House. Pages 39 and 267. ISBN 1-55778-420-5
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