[AnAmericanMother]

Some of the first-person accounts collected by Frank Lindermann (a/k/a "Sign Talker") from older (pre-reservation) informants in various Northern Plains tribes in the early 20th century do mention men who dressed as women.

The informants seemed somewhat bemused by these individuals, but accepting. Neither they nor Lindermann seem to have had any particular axe to grind one way or the other - it was just the way things were.

All the business about honor and acceptance etc. appears to be a gloss by the authors here and others who have seized on these brief mentions to push their agenda.

These books, by the way, are about as close as we will ever come to an unfiltered account of the way things were while the tribes were still living their pre-settlement customs.

[Vigilanteman]

See my post #21. Our accounts pretty much coincide, don’t they?