Well I once met the resident Native American Tom Greenwood- he has since passed. But he told stories of tribes camping right around the grounds we live on. There was a pond they called "healing waters" and then they would move on. As a kid - all they had on TV was cowboy and Indian shows. I was always rooting for the Indians.
I was at the library one day wearing this shirt.
A man came up to me and asked if that was my Indian name.
I looked baffled, he apologized and I went off with my son.
On the way out of the library the same man approached me again and said, "I am sorry but I must explain, My wife recently got her Indian name given to her. She teaches and her name is 'teacher of children'."
I LOVED IT!!! I am not enough of any one anything to claim decent, but if I was given an Indian name, That would have to be it,
Every time I put this shirt on, I think of that man and how appropriate it is that he thought it was my name.