1. Excavating Cultural Treasure: Indigenous Tattooing in the Northwest of North America
Dion Kaszas
Research Project
INDG 203
April 11, 2011

2. Abstract
This project is about recovering the cultural treasure of Nlaka’pamux tattooing. It is an exploration of my journey to beginning the process of practicing my rights as defined under the United Nation Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, to develop the future manifestations of my culture. It will explore the historical underpinnings of Nlaka’pamux tattooing, and draw relevant connections with the Yupik, and the Inuit. It also argues for the use of cultural tattooing as a form of resistance to colonial and neo-colonial pressures to conform and assimilate. It sees tattooing as one way in which Indigenous people can embody their ways of living and being in the world, a form of political and cultural activism.

3. My story
Kaszas, Dion. Tattooing Mom. Nov

4. Post-Modern Capitalist Consumer Society
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5. Maori
Stevenson, Serena Giovanna , Turumakina Duley and niece Ashley Duley, 2004, black and white photograph. Face Value, April 12, 2011 < >

6. Thompson
Teit, James. Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians British Columbia Forth-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington.

7. Arctic Circumpolar
Ivory Mask, Dorset Culture about 1700 B.C. Devon Island, Nunavut. Canadian Museum of Civilization, QkHn-13:489, CD April 2011 <

8. Yupik Skin Stitching
Bogoras, Waldermar. Siberian Yupik woman “stitching the skin” at Indian Point American Museum of Natural history. 11 April <

9. St Lawrence Island (Yupik)
Krutak, Lars. Sadie Sepila of Savoonga April <

10. St. Lawrence Island Yupik woman was the last fully tattooed woman to live on St. Lawrence Island (nose, chin, cheeks, hands, wrists).
Krutak, Lars. Anna Aghtuqaayak (Qayaghhaq). C April <

11. Alethea Arnaquq-Bari. Movie Poster. Aprill 11, 2011. <http://www

12. Nunavut
Marsh, Donald. B. Tattoo Library and Archives Canada. 01 April < >

13. Nunavut
Bernie, J. E. This picture shows the tattooing of the different tribes. March Hudson Bay Expedition aboard CGS "Arctic" Library and Archives Canada. 01 April <

14. Copper Inuit
Wilkins, George. Kila, a tattooed Inuit woman, from the Dolphin and Union Strait area, Coronation Gulf, N.W.T., [Nunavut], 1916. Canadian Museum of Civilization. 01 April 2011 < >

15. Copper Inuit
Hubert, George. Higilaq showing her tattoos at Bernard Harbour, Northwest Territories (Nunavut). July Canadian Museum of Civilization. 01 April 2011 < >

16. Inuit Iglulik
Peter, Albert. Nivisinaaq, Aivilik woman wearing a gala dress, Cape Fullerton, Nunavut Canadian Museum of Civilization. 01 April < >

17. Skin Stitch Today
Artemyz, Claire. Mr. Dale demonstrating the art of skin-stitching on his arm April <

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