"The book focuses on the concept of asegi stories--stories that revise and revive Cherokee cultural memories of same-sex relationships and non-binary gender systems. It is the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous queer/two-spirit critique, providing a Cherokee 2GLBTQ lens from which to interpret the past, understand our present, and imagine decolonial futures"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls -- chapter 1. Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques : building alliances between native and queer studies -- chapter 2. The queer lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes -- chapter 3. Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality -- chapter 4. Beautiful as the red rainbow : Cherokee two-spirits rebeautifying erotic memory -- Chapter 5. [Cherokee characters] (asegi ayetl) : Cherokee two-spirit people reimagining nation -- Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto.