Alaska # 16

Today, I visited the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage and made a new friend: her name is Allison Castillo, and she is an Inca Native working as an intern this summer. She told me about the traditional and contemporary ways of the indigenous cultures of Alaska.
In other exhibits, I learned how the contact with the European/American cultures after 1750 wiped out over 90% of the natives of Alaska through disease, etc., and how many traditions were lost because of the influence of Christian missionaries. One of the goals of the Heritage Center is to retain the values and traditions of the Natives in a changing world.
Warmest regards, Gus