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Tuesday Aug 29, 2006
Every BODY Has a Story: Native Dreams
"I got the Dream Catcher part of this tattoo about seven years ago. I’m of Native American descent, and both my parents are Sioux from the Lakota tribe of Pine Ridge. The Lakota tribe comes from the Western half of the Dakota’s. When I was a kid, jobs were sometimes hard to find, and we moved all over the country. I lived in twenty-two states. Luckiest kid in the world, traveled the whole country and my dad paid for it…
My mom was a homemaker, then she went to school to design missiles and satellites. She had top secret clearance from the government. There’s probably Still some satellites hanging around up there in the sky there my mom mighta had something to do with…
The Dream Catcher is a tattoo that honors my family. The men in my family have always been incredibly close. Male bonding, you know? My own dream came true when I had my son. The war bead in the dream catcher represents him.
Though I got the tattoo for my son, I got it at a time when my dad wasn’t living close by. I was really missing him a lot, and thinking about how much I loved my boy.
With the flag tattoo, I sat down with my wife and told her I wanted the flag draped with no wind, across my arm and around the Dream Catcher. She actually drew it up for me, and then I took it to Jason Bradbury at Atomic Art. See http://www.atomic.ws/. Jason is a great artist, and he cleaned the picture up and did the tattoo.
I got this American flag right after 9-11. For me, we’re all Americans but being a Native American gives me a unique outlook on being American. Everyone else is a transplant; I’m a Native. Both of these tattoos have to do with my heritage and my love for this country. Although I gotta say, I love my country, but I don’t trust my government…
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