One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

why is it important that chief is referred to bromden rather than breckenridge?

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Chief is insulted by being forced to adopt his mother's white name of Bromden, rather than his father's Indian name. This further dilutes his already fragile sense of identity and being. He is forced to conform to an illusion that isn't him or only part him.