About Chief Speak-a-little-French
Where to start? The need to represent a US Soldier online? My, (Jonathan N. Wakeling), struggle with mental health disability? And myself as a psychologist and therapist and the need to represent my own anima and a voice for the dark side?
All of the above.
VIETNAM!
#SpeakALittleFrench
Chief Speak-a-little-French is our archetypical US Soldier and the name I have chosen as a nom de plume – should I wish to use it. It is a name imbued with history just as France and the French language have their history. I was born in Alberta, Canada which is English speaking Canada. And I thought how would I as a Caucasian relate to Native Americans. That’s where I came up with the idea of calling Native America France and its natives French. Chief Speak-a-little-French is my way of “breaking the ice” with Native Americans to put it plainly. Chief Speak-a-little-French, proudly Native American. US Soldier. Just as we all need a bridge with foreign cultures, so there is a need for a diplomatic bridge between nations. A US Soldier is to Canada and the States that sort of bridge.