The past few days have been filled with beginning to set out the pictograph sites I am going to visit and setting out the preliminary itinerary as well as finding maps and logistical resources. One of the major pictograph sites I will be visiting is the Nlaka’pamux Stein Valley Heritage park as it has a high concentration of  amazing [...]

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I have just finished updating the photo galleries on the website they contain many more George Catlin sketches and drawings. Go check them out at. http://www.indigenoustattooing.com/tattoo_gallery  http://www.indigenoustattooing.com/tattoo_gallery_2 Enjoy, I will be adding more tomorrow.

Filed under: George Catlin, Uncategorized, Website Update

As I continue on this journey to finding traditional tattoos of my ancestors I have once again forced myself to take a step back and over the past few days concentrated on me search. Which is a fundamental research methodology found in Indigenous  studies, it asks researchers to look at themselves and see why they are engaged in the research they are.  As can [...]

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As I have been going through the many online archive sources I have not come across a single Nlaka’pamux tattoo source, I at first was a little discouraged about this. I have however found many examples of many other nations tattoos. I have a hunch that the sources I am looking for are in local archives which [...]

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I’m so excited to have been awarded an Undergraduate Research Award which means I will be spending my summer researching Nlaka’pamux tattooing and being paid to do this research. I will be spending many hours searching and looking through photos at Museums and Archives as well as reading journals written by settlers, missionaries, fur traders etc to look for any evidence [...]

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As I was reading through the UN DRIP for another class I realized that another Article gives more support to my project and the project of tattoo revival worldwide. That being Article 31 (1) Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, [...]

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As I was thumbing through Colin Dale’s Facebook page I found this exciting article that was posted on one of my favorite tattoo blogs www.needlesandsins.com it is from the Anchorage Daily News which Features Yaari Kingeekuk and her beautiful ancestral tattoos. Check the article out here http://www.adn.com/2011/04/02/1788951/savoonga-artist-to-explore-traditional.html She tells of her life in this beautiful video clip [...]

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This is another article about the tradition of  skin stitch tattooing among the Indigenous peoples of St Lawrence Island. http://www.larskrutak.com/articles/Last_Tattoos_SLI/index.html At the end of this article he talks about the dying tradition, check out my next post and see it being revived.

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This is the beginning of a journey A journey into the soul of a urban Nlaka’pamux man The final destination is undetermined and unimportant For the journey is the goal Welcome

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I am first and foremost Nlaka’pamux (Thompson), who is beginning his journey into recovering his culture and Nlaka’pamux identity. I also walk in the world of academia, as I am just finishing up my Undergraduate work in Indigenous studies, this blog and website has come about due to these studies and my aforementioned journey. Another world [...]

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