Aqiimuk
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Aqiimuk
@aqiimuk.bsky.social
Uvaŋa atiġa Aqiimuk. From Alaska. Currently living in the Pacific Northwest on Fidalgo Island.
Inuit Day
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Iñupiaq Storytelling by Aqiimuk
October 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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.
September 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Books acquired from attending AFN in 2023.
September 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A T-shirt design for our niece RyenAne Aavurauq. Arrived a couple weeks ago. One of her fundraisers.
September 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Polar bear earrings.
August 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Stella Hensley. Sister-in-law to my grandmother, Jessie Lee. Photo from 1998 in Kotzebue, Alaska.
August 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
2014.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
1940 family details
August 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
First cousin to Aqiimuk.
August 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My husband carved me a red cedar bowhead whale!
July 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Scrimshaw on baleen. Gift received in late 1970s in Kotzebue, Alaska.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
While visiting family in Arkansas in 2024 found this hardback book.
June 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reposted by Aqiimuk
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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Y8...
Katmai Conservancy February Update
YouTube video by Katmai Conservancy
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May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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.
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Kuppikutak is the Inupiat word for: fireweed about to bloom; and is my daughter’s Inupiaq name.
June 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Aqiimuk aularuq. Early 90s.
June 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposting
May 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
2023. Cutting Muktuk and enjoying seal oil with family.
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Found at a free children’s library at Common Grounds in Minneapolis, MN. The Sourdough Man, An Alaskan Folktale.
May 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Aqiimuk aularuq (Aqiimuk dances). All My Relations Powwow 2025.
May 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Aqiimuk aularuq
May 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Great grandparents of Aqiimuk. From the film, Homeland.
May 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
May 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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)
May 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM