This presentation offers a critique of the western binary (fe/male) organization of gender--which identifies biological sex with cultural gender roles and sexual orientation--from the perspective of indigenous “genderqueer” or Two-Spirit identities. Violent bio-colonial efforts to control/destroy non-conforming Native bodies and force tribal assimilation to the normative binary model are named “gendercide” by indigenous feminists who, in response, promote a politics of “sovereign eroticism.”