Tony Tekaroniake (Two Skies in the Mohawk language) Evans is an author, award-winning journalist/columnist, and writing teacher. His work has appeared in Atmos, A&E Networks’ History.com, High Country News, Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine, and other publications. Tony holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology/Biology/Geography from the University of Colorado in Boulder and has studied with renowned authors such as Natalie Goldberg and Rick Bass. He is currently working under an Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship Grant.
Tony specializes in "people stories," as well as travel, art and book reviews, local government, religion, nonprofits, and agriculture. He has won 54 Idaho Press Club awards and reported for The Idaho Mountain Express for 18 years. His books include “Teaching Native Pride” (2020), “Memory and Destiny, The Life of Glenn Janss” (2021), and “A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area” (2014). He is working on a memoir to be published in 2023 by Washington State University Press’ Basalt Books.
Tony has interviewed numerous notable individuals, including Peter Matthiessen, George Schaller, and Robert Thurman. His travel articles have taken him to the Kingdom of Tonga and through Yellowstone's Indigenous history. Tony has conducted Creative Writing Workshops in the Sun Valley area since 2004 and is available for writing/editing projects.