User:Natty4bumpo

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My real name is Chuck Hamilton, and I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and have all my life except for the six years I was in the Naval Security Group and later the Joint Voluntary Agency (working witth the U.S. Refugee Program). I am almost entirely of Scottish and Scots-Irish descent, though my great-great-grandmother was a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. I have one son, David, whose mother (my ex-) is of Kampampangan and Tsinoy descent. I've been interested in a variety of history subjects for most of my life and have studied some rather arcane matters in that regard. As for my handle, Nattybumpo is the misspelling of Natty, or Nathaniel, Bumppo, the actual (in the story actual) name of The Last of the Mohicans character Hawkeye. I've been associated with a number of political causes and groups in the past, most notably certain American Indian causes and Scottish nationalism, primarily the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement. I also keep up with current events in Southeast Asia, primarily in the Philippines, Burma, and Viet Nam. The Last of the Mohicans, Daniel Day-Lewis version, is one of my two or three favorite movies, some others being Farewell to the King, Before Sunrise, and Braveheart.