This really started something, didn't it? I guess many of us, given our interests, have a huge respect for Native Americans. It is sad that many of their traditions have been lost through enforced cultural assimilation. A Dakota Sioux in "Reservation blues" remarks that he knows all about his culture because he saw "Dances With Wolves" -sad. There is quite a large body of information but the majority is derived from research by American academics. A tutor of my wife at Cambridge married the daughter of a Sioux who had been brought up on the Pine Ridge reservation. She did her PhD thesis on the white man's perception of the Native American. As for names, I seem to remember reading somewhere that names were earned and that a person could have several names in their lifetime. One needs to be wary of such generalisation, however. We so often erroneously lump "Indians" together when tribes, customs and lifestyle varied enormously just as Europeans vary from, say Lapps to Island greeks. Many,like the Spanish under Franco and the French under Napoleon suffered loss of language and culture, but anyone with an Irish, Scots or Welsh background knows all about that. Just try defining "British" and you have a lifetime study. Enough for now, I'm off to put warpaint on the hobby horse!