heads at 621400N1472900W, flows NE to Tyone River, 60 mi. NW of Gulkana, Copper River Basin.
Local name reported in 1906 by Sidney Paige and Adolph Knopf (in Brooks and others, 1907, p. 118), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The name is an "Alaska jargon word for 'chief'."