Iñuraaq, Kaylene Evans
Nome, Alaska | Iñupiaq
Communications Director, Native Movement
Uvuŋa atiġa Iñuraaq. Sitñasuakaġamuiruġa. Kiġiktaqamui-lu Katyaakamui-lu illutka. Mamaġa Aaġayuk. Papaġa Keok. Aanaġa Iñuraaq and Maktoya. Taataġa Robert.
My name is Iñuraaq Kaylene Evans. I am an Iñupiaq from Sitñasuak (Nome), Alaska. I am the daughter of Bobby Evans of Sitñasuak and Kathleen Jaycox of Katyaak. I am the granddaughter to the late Laura Maktuaya (Sockpick) Evans of Kiġiktaq, Bob Evans of Minnesota, and the late Myrtle Iñuraaq Wells of Katyaak.
Upon receiving my MA in Indigenous Politics from the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, I have returned to Alaska to more deeply connect to my community, nuna, and traditions. I am a poet, retracing Iñupiat creative traditions. I am passionate about individual and collective healing through the rejection of colonial ideologies and lifestyles, and a return to our languages, homelands, and subsistence values.
For Utuayuuruaq; Quyanna Muktoya; We are Our Ancestors Dreams Alive; (C)o(l)on(i)zation and (M)igr(at)ion Chang(e)
