Toklat

Toklat belongs to the Tanana country of interior Alaska, north of the Alaska Range. The Toklat River drains the mountains toward the Kantishna and Tanana river systems. Forest, river flats and uplands provided different resources and routes through a country whose use changed with the seasons.

Tanana communities lived along the middle Tanana and the Nenana and Toklat rivers, and Upper Koyukon groups used the adjoining Kantishna drainage. Hunting camps and travel routes connected river valleys with the mountains, and these seasonal movements shaped how the land was used.