Togiaq

Togiaq lies at the head of Togiak Bay, where a river descends from the lakes of southwestern Alaska to Bristol Bay. The ancestral Yup’ik settlement of Old Togiak stood on the bay, its inhabitants drawing on salmon, sea mammals and animals of the interior. People moved between coastal villages and inland hunting grounds through the seasons. Russian traders established a post on the Nushagak in 1818, bringing the wider Bristol Bay region into their fur trade.