Not a much of a surprise just another family story.
When my grandfather came to the U.S. he was met by his brother Torvald in Boston and they headed west to a place called Stavanger, Minnesota. Apparently he was so influence by the Dakota indian tribes out there that years later he named his first born Gawama. Unfortunetly grandfather and mother died when the children were young and none of us other squareheads knows anything about the Dakota Souix language to figure what it actually means.
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