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Tula is a 27 year old Asian female. She is physically plain, 5'4", with a mobile, friendly face and acne scars. She wears her short black hair in a businesslike clubbed pony tail or loose and unbrushed as circumstances dictate. Similarly, Tula can be found wearing anonymous professional clothing or, more often, ragged jeans and sweat shirts. She wears no jewelry and does not smoke or drink alcohol.
Tula maintains a facade of polite reserve in unknown company but is quick to open up around others, especially those who express an interest in her particular passions. A people watcher by inclination and training, she delights in both telling and hearing odd stories and anecdotes. She can often be found sitting at the Black Squirrel bar, drinking a glass of ice water and enthusiastiacally explaining the signifigance of monkshood root in the Athabascan pharmacopaea to some hapless neighbor.
Tularemia Chow was born on August 6, 1969 in Moscow, Idaho. She grew up In Moscow, Idaho and neighboring Pullman, Washington. Her father, Albert Chow, was an associate Professor of Chemistry for many years at Washington State University in Pullman. He is best known for his landmark biochemical research on diseases of Lepus Cunicula, the European hare. Tula spent six months at the Washington State Juvenile Facility at Moses Lake when she was sixteen, having set up a methamphetamine lab in an abandoned trailer. Tularemia attended public schools in Moscow and Pullman, graduating unremarkably but on time. In high school she was an indifferent student and had few friends. These few included the class valedictorian and a circle of Nez Perce native students. After her time at Moses Lake, she became fast friends with the school drug crowd, who viewed her as a hero. Tularemia attended Western Washington University and earned a BS in Marine Biology. During her summer in Illiamna, Newhalen, and Egegik, Tularemia became immersed in the native lifeway of the Yupik and Denaina Athabascan people of the region. The experience was transformative - her paper earned top honors and she immediately enrolled in the University of Washington Anthropology graduate program, relocating to Seattle from Bellingham. After earning her MA in Anthropology, Tularemia was approached by some old Nez Perce friends and became involved with identifying human remains recently released from government collections. This, in turn, lead to a free-lance job as a "repatriation specialist", working by word of mouth for various tribes and Nations. Most of her time is spent negotiating with private collectors.
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