Ilanka Cultural Center
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.
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.
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