Thursday, April 29, 2010

American Indian Name

A little American Indian boy asked his father, the Big Chief of the tribe: "Father, why is it that we always have long names, while the white men have short names like Bill, Tex or Sam ?"

"My son", replied his father, "Our names represent a symbol, a sign, or a poem in our culture; not like the white men who live all together and merely repeat their names from generation to generation. For

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