Reply #2: The name is one I was given in a vision with the Mountain Spirits in Big Sky Montana

[winyanstaz]

Winyan means woman in Lakota, Staz means eyes/looks and Wakien is found in Old English meaning "To awaken" and Wakan is Lakota for Sacred. I was given to understand at that time that Wakien also means "in a sacred manner". The whole name they said The Creator knows me by is Woman Who Looks Within.
Although I grew up around the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and of course White people in Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, I myself am Micmac ( it is spelled a number of ways like Mc'kmaq,) Tribe, Algonquin Nation, Bear Clan and French Arcadian. I was taken from my own people at 6 months old. Somewhere in my ancestors is also a Huron war chief and a Abanaki ever so great grandmother.
Why I understood this in Lakota is beyond me.

Winyan= win- yawn
Staz = stazzz
Wakien= walk-keen

This is the vision in which I was told by the Mountain Spirit the name of the Spirit I had encountered in a previous vision in 1984, right after I got to sit in the Light and I learned he was "The bright and the beautiful, he is the Morning Star."

Although it is not traditional to share all about a vision with just anyone, there are parts I can talk about.