Awa'uq Massacre
1784 massacre in Alaska / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Awa'uq Massacre[4][5] or Refuge Rock Massacre,[5] or, more recently, as the Wounded Knee of Alaska,[2] 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 Company.
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Part of the Russian colonization of the Americas and the American Indian Wars | |||
Date | 14 August 1784 | ||
Location | 57°06′22″N 153°05′00″W | ||
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