The Eyak people of Cordova built this museum to preserve and teach about their own culture and that of the other Native peoples who live here. It features a small gallery of traditional and contemporary art, the most famous and intense of which is the “shame pole” directed at Exxon for the oil spill: In an ancient tradition of calling the powerful to account, a fisherman who lost his livelihood after the spill carved it as an act of protest. The cultural center also has the skeleton of a killer whale and, best of all, gregarious people who want to talk about their heritage.