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How social media shapes traditional practice

My daughter wants to get a traditional tattoo for her eighteenth birthday, but I don't know enough about our tattooing traditions to tell her what's appropriate and what's Instagram aesthetics.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital culture accelerates Indigenous cultural revival while simultaneously distorting traditional protocols.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous identity and land?”

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