Haunted by Pehin Hanska.(COMMENTARIES)(growing up with the name Custer)

Thanks to my name, I am writing this essay about what it is like to be named Custer and work as an anthropologist and archaeologist who studies American Indian people. Aside from the obvious fact that I would not be writing such an essay if my name were anything else, I mean to say that it is the name--not necessarily my personal characteristics--that give me this opportunity.

Devon Mihesuah asked me to write about my experiences because in a letter to her I noted after my signature that I was not joking about my name, that I really was an archaeologist named Custer who was indeed a ...

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