Nondalton Village

A nation today

Lower Twin Lake, a glacier-fed lake ringed by mountains in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, National Park Service · Public Domain (NPS work)

Background

Nondalton is a Tanaina Indian name, first recorded in 1909 by the U.S. Geological Survey. A 2019 tribal hazard mitigation plan written for the Nondalton Tribal Council, the governing body of the tribe, says the village was originally located on the north shore of Six Mile Lake and moved to its present location on the west shore in 1940, as growing mudflats and wood depletion made the old site unworkable. The post office, established in 1938, relocated with the villagers, and Nondalton formed an incorporated city government in 1971. The Bureau of Indian Affairs list published on January 30, 2026 now carries the entry Nondalton Tribe, previously listed as Nondalton Village, so the name on this page is the earlier one. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve lists Nondalton among its six Resident Zone Communities and says Nondalton and Lime Village are primarily Dena'ina.

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Parks on its homelands

Lower Twin Lake, a glacier-fed lake ringed by mountains in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.Lake Clark National Park and Preserve

For the past 100 years the people of Nondalton Village have taken most of their fish, game, and water fowl from the Chulitna River and Sixmile Lake drainages, along with the Tazimina River and the upper Newhalen River. The park's Traditional Use Study of that landscape was run with Portland State University researchers, and its results go to the State of Alaska, the Nondalton Tribal Council, and the Kijik Corporation. Source

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Checked September 2026.

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