Ahyoka

ᎠᏲᎧ is a portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a traditional Cherokee story about a crooked-face boy, Ahyoka traces how exclusion was never a Cherokee value and reminds us what it truly means to be a Keetoowah person.

• indigenous
• adoption
• adopted
• cherokee
• indigenous community
• trans woman
• conversion therapy
• queer
• indigenous women
• queer cinema
• cherokee nation
• eastern band of cherokee indians
• queer childhood
• trans rights
• queer documentary
• football
• lgbtq+
• keetoowah
• traditional stories