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The earlier village of Togiagamute is now within the adjacent Twin Hills CDP, and the old site is still occupied. [7] Togiak Station, about 7 miles south of the former Togiagamute, is now a ghost. The Togiak area became a draw for natives in the vicinity after the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918–19, which had almost wiped out many ...
Togiak (Tuyuryaq) Traditional Village of Togiak: Togiak Natives Limited: Bristol Bay Native Corporation Toksook Bay (Nunakauyaq) Nunakauyarmiut Tribe (formerly the Native Village of Toksook Bay) Nunakauiak Yupik Corporation: Calista Corporation Tuluksak (Tuulkessaaq) Tuluksak Native Community: Tulkisarmute Inc. Calista Corporation Tuntutuliak ...
Note that while the names of Alaska Native tribal entities often include "Village of" or "Native Village of," in most cases, the tribal entity cannot be considered as identical to the city, town, or census-designated place in which the tribe is located, as some residents may be non-tribal members and a separate city government may exist.
Herring spawn-on-kelp is a favored food among the majority of households in various communities in the "Togiak district" around Bristol Bay (Togiak, Manokotak, and Aleknagik). Residents of Twin Hills, Dillingham, etc. in the bay's area also eat spawn-on-kelp. In the Togiak district, harvests of spawn-on-kelp took place between late April and ...
Rita Pitka Blumenstein (1936–2021), first certified traditional doctor in Alaska; Callan Chythlook-Sifsof (born 1989), Olympic snowboarder; Moses Paukan (1933–2017), businessman and politician; Saint Olga Michael (1916-1979), Eastern Orthodox priest's wife (matushka) who was canonized as a saint in 2023 by the Orthodox Church in America
Twin Hills is located at (59.077924, -160.284513), [6] at the northeast end of Togiak Bay and adjacent to the city of Togiak. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 23.1 square miles (59.7 km 2), of which 22.8 square miles (59.0 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 1.15%, is water.
The Igushik River (Yup'ik: Iiyuussiiq) is a stream, 50 miles (80 km) long, in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] The river flows south from Amanka Lake into the Nushagak Bay arm of Bristol Bay. [3]
Togiak National Wildlife Refuge is in the Dillingham and Bethel Census Areas, Alaska. It is dominated by the Ahklun Mountains in the north and the cold waters of Bristol Bay to the south. The natural forces that have shaped this land range from the violent and powerful to the geologically patient.