wergern
Yurok
Alternative forms
- wrgrn
Noun
wergern
- a male-bodied person who lives as a woman, particularly as a shaman
See also
- two-spirit
References
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men ISBN 0292777957, 2010)
- Alfred Louis Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California ISBN 0486233685, 1925), page 46: "One in every several hundred Yurok men, on the average, preferred the life and dress of a woman, and was called wergern."