Where as my reasons are that I hate my legal name, those who read my goal entries on this should know that my birthname and legal name are two different things. I was raised Native American and thus my “birthname” is Lakota in origin. My legal name, however, is one that the State of South Dakota enforced my mother to pick since the state bans all “non-Christianized” names from being legal names.
I was once proud to be called Ripples on Water, then I became He Who Fights on Golden Wing, then Circling Turtle, and, finally and currently, Chasing Raven. I am extremely proud of all of these names because they mark turning points in my life and growth steps within my own self. And beside them, “Douglass” is just so not me, I have to do something about it.
