Traditional Healing Clinic hosts Alaska Native cultural classes this week

The Traditional Healing Clinic in Anchorage is hosting a series of Alaska Native cultural classes this week, covering traditional crafts, language instruction, and food preparation.

Southcentral Foundation's Traditional Healing Clinic offers cultural classes such as beading, salve-making, sewing rabbit fur mittens, and identifying local plants to customer-owners in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough and to SCF employees. The classes pass on Alaska Native traditions between generations through hands-on learning. The clinic refreshes its class schedule approximately every two weeks through an online registration portal.

This week's schedule includes sessions on porcupine quillwork, Ahtna language basics, beadwork, salmon dip preparation, berry jelly preservation, drawstring bag sewing, and dreamcatcher weaving. Classes take place at 4:00 PM AKDT at the Traditional Healing Clinic, located at 4320 Diplomacy Drive, Suite 1010, Anchorage.

All classes require advance registration through the clinic's online portal.

Registration information is available at Southcentral Foundation's website.