Awa'uq Massacre
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The Awa'uq Massacre or Refuge Rock Massacre, or more recently known as the Wounded Knee of Alaska, was an attack and massacre of Koniag Alutiiq people in August 1784 at Refuge Rock near Kodiak Island
Grigory Shelikhov's settlement is depicted in this 1802 lithograph. Three Saints was founded in 1784 just across the strait from Sitkalidak Island.
An Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) village in Old Harbor, Alaska in 1889, with Oncorhynchus salmon hung up for drying
Alutiiq
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The Alutiiq, also called by their ancestral name Sugpiaq, as well as Pacific Eskimo or Pacific Yupik, are a Yupik peoples, one of eight groups of Alaska Natives that inhabit the southern-central coast
Awa'uq Massacre
…The Awa'uq Massacre or Refuge Rock Massacre, or more recently known as the Wounded Knee of Alaska, was an attack and massacre of Koniag Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people in August 1784 at Refuge Rock near Kodiak Island by Russian fur trader Grigory Shelekhov and 130 armed Russian men and cannoneers of his Shelikhov-Golikov…
A Sugpiaq dancer