
Born in 1875, “Grandma” Olga Nicolai Ezi was originally from Tyone Lake and Copper Center regions. She married a Dena’ina leader of the upper Cook Inlet in 1896.
Olga and her husband raised five children and led a hard-working subsistence lifestyle and ferried supplies from Anchorage to area villages. The couple is credited with settling into Eklutna and establishing much of the tribal lineage.