"Thomas Christopher Jarvis" <tchris-j@online.no> wrote in message
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> "Curt James" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Thomas Christopher Jarvis wrote:
> >> "Curt James" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >Thomas Christopher Jarvis wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello!
> >> >>
> >> >> My great grandmother is from french Guiana in the South
Americas, she
> >> >> was an indian. I have always wanted a tattoo with a symbol
> >> >> representing something meaningful to her people. I am unable to
find
> >> >> anything on the net...does anyone know what I should do?
> >> >[...]
> >> >
> >> >What did your search include?
> >> >
> >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
> >> >
> >> >"The main Amerindian groups (forming about 3%-4% of the
population) are
> >> >the Arawak, Emerillon, Galibi (now called the Kaliña), Palikour,
> >> >Wayampi (also known as Oyampi) and Wayana."
> >> >
> >> >May not be at all related to your great grandmother, however a
link
> >> >that leads to - imo - some very interesting reading:
> >> >
> >> >http://www.kacike.org/cac-ike/ReviewContents.html
> >> >
> >> >Which, in turn, offered a link for Guyana's Amerindian Peoples
> >> >Association Homepage:
> >> >
> >> >http://www.sdnp.org.gy/apa/
> >> >
> >> >Best of luck in your search.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yeah, I've read those pages, it is very interesting. Have also read
> >> the book 'Papillon' by Henri Charriere which is an account of his
> >> imprisonment on Devil Island, and his final escape.
> >
> >I've never read the book, but saw the movie on the big screen. IMDb
> >says I must have been 11 or 12. Awesome flick.
> >
> >http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070511/
> >
>
> The book is even better...a very detailed account...
> --
> Thomas Christopher Jarvis - I do what I like, I like what I do
>
> "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives;
> shit happens." - Angelina Jolie
His "autobiography" is just a fictionalized conglomeration of stories he
collected. Granted part of it was true but nowhere near the whole story.
"Modern researchers, however, believe that Charrière got much of his
story material from other inmates, and see the work as more
fictionalized than a true autobiography. In 2005, a 104-year-old man in
Paris, Charles Brunier, claimed to be the real Papillon. Modern critics
tend to agree that Charrière's depictions included events that happened
to others, and that Brunier was at the prison at the same time."
If you want to read a true autobiography, read Rene Belbenoits' "Dry
Guillotine".
If this is the level of your research, you may end up with a taz tattoo
after all. wasn't he a real indigenous Tasmanian mammal.
In regards to wanting a tattoo to commemorate your theoretical heritage,
do some real research, find out WHAT ACTUAL FUCKING TRIBE your
G-grandmother belonged to, find out what their symbology was and how it
may have pertained to HER LIFE and then you might get a meaningful
tattoo out of it. Or listen to Curt.