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- Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh (1992, →ISBN, page 83: For example, the Cree word for berdache, ayekkwew, can be translated as "neither man nor woman" or "man and woman." […] A Plains Cree berdache was named Piecuwiskwew because, according to Cree informants, Piecuw was a man's name and Iskwew was a woman's name—"half and half just like he[sic] was."