The first federally recognized same-sex marriage will happen on the
Coquille reservation
http://blog.oregonlive.com/qpdx/2008/08/the_first_federally_recognized.html (http://blog.oregonlive.com/qpdx/2008/08/the_first_federally_recognized.html)
Alley Hector
8/20/2008
In a move as confusing as it is exciting the Coquille Tribe on the southern Oregon coast has just legalized marriage on their land And Kitzen and Jeni Branting, in a committed lesbian relationship since high school, will soon be legally wed.
Though most Native American cultures have been fairly accepting of a
wide range of genders and sexualities, sometimes honoring "two-spirits" as shamans, contemporary tribal laws have mostly banned same-sex marriage.