“I don’t know that there’s an Anglish word for it. It literally means ‘someone who does the work of a caterpillar.’ But really, it means…a little girl who grows up to be a man, or a little boy who grows up to be a woman. Or…someone mistaken in childhood for the sex opposite their true one? It’s hard to say in Anglish. It can also mean someone who’s not precisely a man or a woman—someone with two spirits, or with a trickster spirit that can change from man to woman and back. My great auntie Mamisashquee is a mupauanakausonat. Everyone thought she was a boy when she was a child.”
