My sisters recently changed the name of our group chat to “Board of Directors” 🥸

Someone from UAF sent me their berry picking spot on a map 🥲 real community

Today’s news: it rained (🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼), my new husky friend Pepper chased a black fox into the trees (and came back right away with no visible blood 🥲) and I encountered my first real life tree house. Yay for rain 🤠

It’s too hot in Fairbanks man

I moved to Fairbanks this week and it’s so good to be back with Fairbanks fam and UAF community again 🥰 missed you guys

Nalukataq update from Nattles (my niece):

And I’m in anchorage 😩

I thought the world was ending til they got to the end and said fires

Did anyone else hear that emergency alert?!! Omg I feel like I’m going crazy. That was my first time hearing an emergency alert to evacuate on the radio and it was for Fairbanks areas

RE the vacuum-sealed bag shown: that’s a serving from a small *butterball* aġviq caught in Wainwright this spring. The best of the best 😋 🤤

Yes that’s a commercial ulu but.. the handle on my ivory ulu is loose. I forgot how we got this one but I think it was a gift hehe

Joj (my 23 year old little sister): “Mom these saltines are the ones you bought like last year or something”

We do what we can with what we have at the time

Currently:

The goods:

My mom stopped by to deliver maktak and 15 min after she left, a black bear and 2 cubs moseyed into our driveway. Probably looking for that maktak 👀 🐋

In honor of FD here’s some of my favorite memes I’ve sent to my dad

I finally did it. It turned out amazing. This is your sign to do the same

My stuffed salmon souvenir from Sapporo turned out to be a salmon egg neck pillow in disguise 🫨

Me and my mom are in Sapporo this week. It’s been amazing! We checked off 11 out of the top 25 things to do so far

Fairbanks + Utqiaġvik + Dillingham springtime views from the plane. Slightly moody

She said not over here bb girl

Meese drama today

Dillingham this week 🤓 I spent maybe 4 years thinking about and mapping this region. Cool to be back. Rivers, man

Call your Aaka.

Qikiqtaġruk ❤️

Not pictured: a new “Unapologetically Iñupiaq” sticker on the back of my phone

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