Many cultures have a steambath, and for Native people in the Southwestern Alaska region, the Yup'ik or Yupiit, we call it the maqi- which of course is done in a maqiiwiik, a place to maqi.
Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Isuma. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities.
