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About the panelists & moderator:
- Kunaq is from Sitnasuaq. She is Iñupiaq and Kiowa. She began her Kakiñiit journey in 2013 she received her tavlugun. She later became a traditional tattooist herself in 2016 and began helping with the revitalization effort to bring back our kakiñiit.
- Jamie “Sikkattuaq” Harcharek is from Anchorage, Alaska she is an Aaka, wife, iļisaurri (teacher and coach) and artist, miquqti (seamstress) Kakiñiqri (tattooist). She has lived in Utqiaġvik for the past 15 years. She is from the Neakok and Tukrook family of Kali, also known as Point Lay, Alaska. Sikkattuaq is married to Qaiyaan Harcharek, he is nusunginyakuayaat and is a proud Aapa, husband, harpooner, hunter, trapper, anthropologist. Sikkattuaq and Qaiyaan have four children; Aaġluaq Kimmialuk 11, Qayaaq Hāpuna Tepoura who just turned 3 on Nov. 2, and identical twin girls Sisualik Sirraġiñ Lilinoe and Qutan Uiññiq Līhau who just turned 1 on Halloween.
Over the past eight years Sikkattuaq has worked as an Iñupiaq Language and Cultural Teacher for Fred Ipalook Elementary, teaching 2nd and 4th grades and more recently including K4. She coached our Native Youth Olympic games over the past 13 years for the community of Utqiaġvik. She is a traditional Inuit tattoo artist that uses the hand-poking and sewing methods, whom she learned in 2016 from Maya Sialuk Jacobsen who is Kallaasisut (Greenlandic iñuk). Her hobbies include anything artistic such as sewing, painting, carving, and creating things by hand. Sikkattuaq is a part of hunting family who would love to be spending a lot more time on the land and water. She maintains a traditional diet where her family subsistently harvest animals, vegetation, and barriers along the north slope land, ocean, and rivers. She has made it her life goal to pass along the traditional Iñuit language, history, culture and lifestyle to future generations
- Aqpik is Iñupiaq, her family is from White Mountain and Golovin, AK. She is mother to Evan Lukluan. Aqpik has served in many spaces as an advocate for Indigenous womxn, sovereignty, gender justice and rights to health and wellbeing. She is a lifelong learner in both her cultural traditions and decolonizing academia. She earned her B.A in American Ethnic Studies with a minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, an M.A in Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development, and received her PhD in Indigenous Studies. Charlene gratefully resides in Anchorage on the territories of the Dena'ina peoples. Here she has taught the Iñupiaq language and is part of Kingikmuit dance group with her son son. She is a co-founder of the Alaska Native Birthworkers Community.
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