Protocols for a
Native American Naming Ceremony
Welcome Shelagh
Dillon,
of the People of our
everyday life website
To one of our many
posting about our ceremonies.
At
Moiigans (Maïngan)
News
Today it was this
one
Sacred Naming
Ceremony Protocol
7/3/11
Your group has been
to our sites as a point of reference many times in the past.
I noticed today that
you gave your group
two links as to your in-put on your site.
Ours
And this is
perfectly fine as long as no one in your group charges for our
"Free
Information,"
In addition.
A Tripod site?
My only concern
about this site is the fact that all of its information is
from tribes west of
the Mississippi river.
There is no problem
with the information
however;
readers east of the Mississippi river might be a
little confused.
In our years
traveling around Indian Country,
it was very noticeable as to the many
same and
differences
in the culture and ceremonies in tribes.
This is
understandable knowing the great distance between
many of the tribes mentioned
and the ones not mentioned.
For instance
Our people over on
the east coast,
if traditionalist
will have
three names.
One as a child to
the culture, adopted or born into the tribe.
One used out in the
public so as not to confuse the public.
This name could be
any name Kiehtan see fit to place on the child.
This person will use
this name for life, Kiehtan, friends and family will remember forever.
The third and the
only one the really means anything to Kiehtan,
is the
"Prayer
Name"
given at the same
time as the second.
The third name never
spoken in public,
exception, at any of our ceremonies.
The first is usually
given by an elder of the people to be changed by Kiehtan.
Names two and three,
are given by Kiehtan and changed only by Kiehtan.
KIEHTAN
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