For indigenous peoples queer identity reproduces personal, often unconscious ideas about themselves and their place in the world. Berdache identity is the most common, personal, sometimes unconscious idea about the inner structure of Native American societies of the past. Such an assessment is not always positively perceived by the white mainstream culture of modern American society. However, the recognition of indigenous identity has now become a condition for further positive dynamics of the Native Americans self-acceptance in the US and Canada.
