Does anyone know if Abel Graywolf is a good name for a Native American...?

... in a sample novel. I'd wanna publish it in at least a short story. I'm not an official writer yet but what do you think? %26amp; i don't know any Native Americans in real life.

Does anyone know if Abel Graywolf is a good name for a Native American...?
If you are setting your novel in the present, it would be good. However, if you are going back 500 years or more, then no.
Reply:I can't speak for them, but from what I gather...





If you are doing a modern story or at least something of the time period they started taking (or had forced onto them) "white" names, then it sounds fine I guess as long as it's not a name you know that anyone actually has or had. (Like no Crazyhorse or anything.) "Graywolf" could well be a family name though...





And just a suggestion... I've heard before that it's a better idea to make up a tribe/Nation, language, etc rather than use what's real. If you don't know any Native people in real life to bounce ideas off of, then it will save you from offending an actual tribe or Nation of people, especially if you keep away from generalized stereotypes.
Reply:graywolf is good but abel not so much think of animals like Swimming Bird..lol my mom worls at a native american clinic so yea!!