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Posts by Aqiimuk
Iñupiaq Storytelling by Aqiimuk
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She never went to school, traveling/herding with her parents. Learning to read/write from nurses in Seward, while recovering from TB in 1955.
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Aqiimuk’s maternal grandmother, Jessie Lee. She contracted tuberculosis, spent 8 months in recovery, resting, at a TB sanitarium, Seward, Alaska in 1955.
Jessie Magdeline Unalliyqutaq (Hensley) Lee. 1912 – 1983. Born in Noatak, Alaska.
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Books acquired from attending AFN in 2023.
7 months ago
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A T-shirt design for our niece RyenAne Aavurauq. Arrived a couple weeks ago. One of her fundraisers.
7 months ago
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Polar bear earrings.
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Stella Hensley. Sister-in-law to my grandmother, Jessie Lee. Photo from 1998 in Kotzebue, Alaska.
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2014.
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1940 family details
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First cousin to Aqiimuk.
8 months ago
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My husband carved me a red cedar bowhead whale!
9 months ago
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Scrimshaw on baleen. Gift received in late 1970s in Kotzebue, Alaska.
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While visiting family in Arkansas in 2024 found this hardback book.
9 months ago
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Hi, Bluesky!
We’re Katmai Conservancy — the official nonprofit partner of Katmai National Park.
We support the park through education, research, and community partnerships that protect wildlife, landscapes, and cultural heritage.
Learn more: katmaiconservancy.org
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Inupiat mask designed and created by Aqiimuk. Left image is front. Right is the back. Driftwood tree bark, feather, tree fungi. Cedar bark and plastic beads. Glue used.
10 months ago
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Kuppikutak is the Inupiat word for: fireweed about to bloom; and is my daughter’s Inupiaq name.
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Aqiimuk aularuq. Early 90s.
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Reposting
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2023. Cutting Muktuk and enjoying seal oil with family.
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Found at a free children’s library at Common Grounds in Minneapolis, MN. The Sourdough Man, An Alaskan Folktale.
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Aqiimuk aularuq (Aqiimuk dances). All My Relations Powwow 2025.
11 months ago
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Aqiimuk aularuq
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Great grandparents of Aqiimuk. From the film, Homeland.
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Kai perfume oil. Gardenia!
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Umiivik, family name, by 2 men, James Hensley & James Witkowski. Umiivik was James Hensley, 1925 – 1978. brother to maternal grandmother, Jessie Magdeline Hensley Lee; uncle to my Inupiaq mother, Elizabeth (Hensley) Harvey. Umiivik was my late brother, James Daniel (Harris) Witkowski (1955 - 1979)
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Aqiimuk is:
· the mother of Kuppikutak & Qulauruq
· the daughter of Ququqpaluk and Merrell Gwinn Harris
· the granddaughter of Pittuqti and Unaliiqutaq
· the great-grandaughter of Akpayuk and Naungagiaq
· the great, great, great, great, great, great, granddaughter of Quyana
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Sweet!
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Got it! Ha! Ulu
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