Telaquana Corridor Historic District: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
NPS Alaska Regional Office and Ferreira S. 2006. Telaquana Corridor Historic District: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 100109. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Alaska Regional Office/CLI Database
The Telaquana Corridor Historic District is a historic vernacular and ethnographic landscape within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It is a well-known route from the Dena'ina winter village of Kijak, on the shores of Lake Clark, to Telaquana Lake, where there was another village on Trail Creek (Ch'qulch'ishtnu). There was also a fish camp on the north bank of the Telaquana River near the outlet of Telaquana Lake. The corridor was an important route that connected the greater Lake Clark and Iliamna regions with villages in the surrounding area. After 1900, the route became important to Euro-American trappers and miners, and it was the primary migration route when the Dena'ina finally abandoned inland villages for Kijik and Nondalton. It continues to be popular today with hikers, hunters, and fishermen. While the ecological landscape is far more expansive, the Telaquana Corridor Historic District is defined for the National Register of Historic Places as a corridor approximately a mile wide and 50 miles long, encompassing known historic routes, natural features, and other tangible objects and sites in the landscape which contributed to the significance of the District. The District has local significance in areas of Alaska Native Heritage, Exploration, Transportation, and Archeology for the period 1860-1940.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Alaska Regional Office; Ferreira, Samson
- Date of Issue
- 2006-07
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- AKR , LACL
- Keywords
- Archeology, Dena'ina, ethnographic landscape, Exploration, Fur Trade, historic vernacular landscape, Indigenous Peoples Trails, Kijik, Lake Clark, Migration Route, Native Alaskan, Native American Ethnic Heritage, Native names, Russian Orthodox, Settlement, Subsistence, Trails and Travelers, Transportation, wayfinding