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  1. Feb 2025
    1. This can be fixed, and you know exactly how. “I can give you a name. Something you can call yourself when you need to feel strong. It’s authentic,” you add enthusiastically. “From a real Indian.” That much is true.

      Traditionally no one can just give people Indian names. One has to be given the right to within their tribe and also the one given the name has to receive has to follow the sacred traditions that have pasted down. I think this is also very important to point out that this has also been commercialized.

    2. “Nobody wants to buy a Vision Quest from a Jesse Turnblatt,” you explain. “I need to sound more Indian.”

      This statement is important because it talks about Vision Quests and them being able to be bought. Vision Quests are a sacred ceremony and are not to be sold or bought. This shows that these sacred practices have been commercialized.