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Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield
"Why do we got names like we do?" I said.
"They come from old Indian names. We had our own way of naming before white people came over and spread all those dad names around in order to keep the power with the dads."
I didn't understand this explanation about dads. And I didn't know if Bear Shield meant shields that bears used to protect themselves, or shields people used to protect themselves against bears, or were the shields themselves made out of bears?
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