Lisa Charleyboy: Hi, my name is Lisa Charleyboy. Charleyboy, not Charley bois. So it's really really easy. It's Charley and then boy. It doesn't get easier than that. I often go to Quebec or any other place in my travels and people always want to make it French, and it's not French. I hate to disappoint.

I am first nations Native American, and it is a name that has passed down through my family. As to how the name came about, I heard that it was kind of this old school village way of passing down names where everyone had first names, and then the way you would differentiate between the different people with the same first name ... say there's John and then another John ... that would be John, son of Derrick, and then John, son of Charley.

That's how I was told that my name came about. This practice is not unique for Indigenous people in North America. This is the practice that's been going on for hundreds, I'd say even thousands of years in small villages in Europe. I've heard about this, of course, in Ireland and all over the world. So it's Charleyboy, not Charley bois.