If you are a new comer, or are planning on visiting Alaska, I would highly encourage you to take the time to visit the Alaska Native Heritage Center off of Muldoon In Anchorage. There are buses that run back and forth from the down town museum and the Native Center. There is a unique outside display of many of the Alaskan Native traditional houses that you can walk through and feel how it was to live as a Native centuries ago.

http://www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/plan_visit/