My mom and I have laughed for ages about "Indian names." In the movie Dances with Wolves, the name of the love interest character was "Stands with a Fist." Remember the wolf who befriended Kevin Costner? His name was "Two Socks."
Once upon a time, my mom called me "Hot Heels" during one of her visits to Orlando. I was laying on my bed and instead of taking off my socks, I just bunched them up in the middle of my foot so that only my toes were covered. I was probably trying to avoid the squiggly line patterns on my ankles that come from the elastic in socks when they're worn for a long time. She asked me why my socks were like that, if I had hot heels or something. We cracked up! So I joked that could be my "Indian name." Certainly it fits me. Ha!
Back then, I didn't have kids, only canine children. My yellow Labrador Beamer's Indian name was Whippersnapper, because we always assumed Kismet, my black Lab, was older. Every now and then, Beamer would try to break bad with Kismet--the young jock trying to knock the aging coach off the pedestal. It never worked, but he was pretty much always the little upstart his whole life. Kismet's Indian name was Crumbseeker. Self-explanatory.
What's your Indian name?
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