A Boy Called Slow

I finished this book on 07/17/09.

A Boy Called Slow is a book about a Native American boy (called slow). The reason he got the name Slow was that kids were most often named like this: first, the parents find a word or words that describe the kid well. Then they use it as the kid's (not permanent) name. For example, I might be named Computer Liker or Likes Computers!

The name isn't permanent though. If you lived then, you'd do something quite significant to outgrow your kid name (which I believe many kids loathed.)

Slow got his name when he didn't respond quickly to one thing his dad or mom asked. To outgrow his old name, Slow gets on a horse he owned and wards off enemies that were attacking their tribe. He became a very famous Indian chief and earned the name Sitting Bull. You might have heard of it before which gives away that this is nonfiction!

In this book I got a better idea of Sitting Bull. I knew there was some famous guy called Sitting Bull but I didn't know much about him, nor did I know that kids were named like his child name. This also reminded me of something that I did in my class at school. My teacher, Denise, took us to West Park and fixed up an old Native American trail along with some help from our buddies from Community High. It was a huge thing and actually the city did some of it too!! Later in the summer me and my friend Saul walked down it, at least a section of it.