Ts'itonhna'

The Matanuska River runs through a mountain valley toward Cook Inlet, between the lands of the Ahtna and Dena’ina peoples. For generations, people travelled through these valleys to hunt, fish and trade, following waterways between the interior and the coast. The river valley also offered a route across the mountains to Ahtna country during the era of Russian fur trading. Glaciers feed the river from the surrounding heights, and its valley forms part of a network of routes that linked communities on either side of the mountains.