Iliamna

Iliamna is associated with the Dena’ina country around the great lake of the same name. Old Iliamna stood on the Iliamna River near its mouth, at the western end of a portage connecting the lake with Cook Inlet. Indigenous travellers carried boats across this route, joining the waters of Cook Inlet and Bristol Bay. In the 1790s the Russian Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post in the area. Dena’ina destroyed the post after abuses by its traders, as communities across the region resisted Russian encroachment.