• 3 months ago
Greenlanders have recently started rediscovering and reappropriating their cultural heritage, such as Inuit tattoos, which are primarily worn by women. They were never formally banished but disappeared when the territory was colonised. Greenland was a Danish colony from 1721 to 1953 before gradually becoming autonomous in the second half of the 20th century.
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00:00I feel that it's very liberating to get another tattoo.
00:10It's like they're coming home to me.
00:30We have, as a group, an identity crisis.
00:41And a very busy building, like nation building.
00:46And Inuit tattooing shows up as perfect symbolism.
00:53But it's taken on super quickly.
00:57So it's still not answering, who are we?
01:03It's just answering, who am I right now?
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