Term: berdache (Fr.)
Definition: a man who dressed as and performed the social roles of a woman in an Indian community (see Thomas McKenney's 1826 letter from Fond du Lac at Turning Points in Wisconsin History: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints).
[Source: McDermott, John Francis. A Glossary of Mississippi Valley French, 1673-1850 (St. Louis: 1941).]
