Ok, Bangkokboy.....I'll tell ya......but you might get bored.
My father was from the Alabama-Choushatta reservation in Livingston Texas. He disappeared into his bottle of Vodka shortly after I turned 3, so I never really knew him, but I've always been proud of that side of my heritage.
I had learned that most tribal names, had been changed by whiteman who couldn't be bothered with correct pronunciation. For example Cherokee is really pronounced Cha Ka Gee.....there are no 'r' sounds in the language.
I was at a Native American Arts & Crafts type show once where I spied a Choushatta man selling handmade pineneedle baskets. I ask him how the name of the tribe was pronounced, and he said "Choushatta". To which I replied, no I don't mean the whitemans way, I want to know the correct name. He got the biggest grin on his face
, and told me "Koasati".
When I stumbled upon skin.org, and found I needed a nick, I didn't want to use my nick of "Wolf", coz I figured it was too common and had bad connotations to a lot of people. So I dedided to use Koasati.
I found out later that Koasati means "Lost Tribe\People" and thought how very fitting for me, since I'm usually lost in my own little world.
