This Ink Runs Deep features Indigenous tattoo artists across Canada who are reviving ancestral traditions that were taken away during colonization. Through the film, directed by Asia Youngman, we learn about the practices that were thought to be lost forever, and how their revival reflects a reawakening of Indigenous identity.
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"I've been interested in traditional tattoos for a few years now and since then it's been a yearning to feel like I can wear them as well," says Jana Angulalik, a traditional Inuit tattoo artist from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. "It's been a journey — a journey to get there to be able to wear them proudly and confidently and without any shame."
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