The Cultural Piercing

As I have been reading through the books here at the Library, I have realized that the Alaska Native cultures are a lot alike. In a lot of Alaska Native cultures they have a labret, which is the piercing under the bottom lip between the chin and the lip. Some cultures have two so they can stick a bone through them but now days most only have one. I have a labret myself and in order to get it I danced for the Sand Point Dance group for a long time and I have also written a two-page paper on it. If I wanted to get it I had to prove that it was cultural, and I had to explain what it meant. Even though my mother knew what it meant she made sure that I knew what it meant. But since I have been in this Contemporary Native Life class, I have learned that he Aleut culture isn't the only culture with a labret.