Helping create “Wellness Warriors”: Primary Care for remote Alaska Native Communities

There are two words that I never appreciated before coming to Alaska — ‘‘remote” and “wilderness.” The main population centre, Anchorage, is rather deceptive. It appears to be just another American city, with its Walmarts, McDonalds, strip malls and grid of straight roads. Yet, it is a little island of the familiar, surrounded by an unimaginably vast wilderness where, as Alaskans like to remind you, man is not the top predator.