User:Broken Claw

Broken Claw is the name I use for most of my online activity, as a tribute to my native American ancestry. The name is derived from the traditional naming practices of my paternal grandfather's legacy, which is the Eagle clan of the Otoe-Missouria tribe of Oklahoma, of which I am a tribal elder. (The name has no connection with the Brokenclaw character from the James Bond series of novels.) It is not my real Indian name, because it was not given to me by the clan elder. My paternal grandmother's ancestry was the Munsee tribe of Kansas. Most of my editing at Wikipedia involves these two tribes. However, I was born and raised in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania among my mother's extended family, so I also contribute to Wikipedia in regards to that locale.