I'll be spending today and tomorrow at the Alaska Native Heritage Center taking a Cultural Awareness Workshop. I've been looking forward to it for months. It's one of the many trainings I'm taking through my workplace.

I'll be sure to describe the ANHC here on the blog. Apparently, it gets a LOT of visitors during the summer tourist season. Being one of the few places near Anchorage where you can see the Alaska Native culture up close. Most Alaska Natives live in "the Bush" or in small villages and towns outside the urban centers of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau.

There are MANY different native groups. I think a wide variety of them are represented at the Heritage Center. At least I hope they are. I don't know that any of them are actually referred to as eskimos. That seems to be more of a generic term given to them by white explorers, similar to the term indian in the lower 48.