'Tattoos are a powerful way of sharing what you’ve been through and what you’ve overcome.”
Her journey to where she is today was far from smooth. When she was a child, her mother brought them to live with her then boyfriend on another Alberta reserve. There, Callingbull grew up in poverty and, unbeknownst to her mother at the time, endured six years of physical and sexual abuse at his hand. A victim herself, her mother finally built up the courage to pack up their belongings and escape to Callingbull’s grandparents’ house in Enoch.
Callingbull could have easily spiralled downward, but she credits her grandmother, a medicine woman who raised over 26 foster children and whom she calls “Kokum” in Cree, with helping her heal. “She is the one who taught me about the strength that is in my culture and kept me on the right track,” she says. “She would always tell me ‘Things will always work out.’” Her grandmother passed away in 2006, but Callingbull will forever have her name, Charlotte, on her right wrist.
When Callingbull was 14, she experienced another trauma. Her sister Ambee was diagnosed with a chromosome disorder known as trisomy 18 and passed away at only six days old. She marked the memory with a pair of wings on her right ankle. “I thought I’d give her wings because she’s my little angel,” says Callingbull. “And putting them on my ankle, it’s like she keeps me flying.”
Photography by Alyssa Lau and Eric Yun. hair and makeup, mariah callingbull/indigenous iron woman. Clothing and Jewellery From New Classics Studios.
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