Osh-Tisch was a leading badé (modern terminology: two-spirit

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) of the Crow Nation

Crow Nation

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. Osh-Tisch translates as "Finds Them and Kills Them". Badés, male

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s living as female

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s, such as Osh-Tisch held such an esteemed place amongst the Crow that when an American

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 agent jailed them and forced them to get masculine haircuts in the late 1890's, Chief Pretty Eagle

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 ordered the agent off tribal lands

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. Osh-Tisch was one of the last badé of the Crow Nation, as the institution went into decline during her lifetime.

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