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To: shedubie

Yes Native Americans are still given names. It is done by a Medicine Man and only after he has met the individual and received a vision.

The local medicine man in my part of Northern Michigan is Chippewa but the locals prefer the Lakota man who travels through here several times a year.

Interesting to me is that there are no longer any "Man afraid of his horse" or " Little Big Man" Every one now seems to be Bear, Eagle, or Wolf something or other.


35 posted on 02/03/2005 3:46:16 PM PST by Mustard Plaster
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To: Mustard Plaster

thanks, mustard plaster. your knowledge seems to supercede mine. i respectfully retract some of my animosity toward name callers.


39 posted on 02/03/2005 4:08:05 PM PST by shedubie (shedubie)
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