Life Proceeds From the Name: Indigenous Peoples and the Predicament of Hybridity

doi:10.4324/9781315023113-12

ABSTRACT

My name is Tsoai-talee. I am, therefore, Tsoai-talee; therefore I am. The storyteller Pohd-lohk [Old Wolf] gave me the name Tsoai-talee. He believed that a man's life proceeds from his name, in the way that a river proceeds from its source.