AKU-MATU is the rap name of Allison Akootchook Warden.  Modeled after KRS-ONE, the rapper that most influenced her desire to rap, it is a hyphenation of two of her Iñupiaq names, Akootchook and Matumeak. 

Taimanisaaq/Akkupak (Long Long Time Ago/Right Now) is a collection of AKU-MATU's short Twitter poems that center around themes of climate change and the environment.