Sitkalidak Island () is an island in the western

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in the Kodiak Island Borough of the state of

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, United States. It lies just off the southeast shore of

Kodiak Island Kodiak Island (, ) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the Un ...

, across the Sitkalidak Strait from the city of Old Harbor. The island has a land area of and no resident population.

Alutiiq Tribe

The

Awa'uq Massacre The Awa'uq MassacreSven Haakanson, Jr. (2010)"Written Voices Become History" In ''Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists''. George Nicholas (editor). Left Coast press, Inc., 2010 or Refuge Rock Massacre, or, more recently, as the Wounded ...

Sven Haakanson, Jr. (2010)
Written Voices Become History
In ''Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists''. George Nicholas (editor). Left Coast press, Inc., 2010 (pp 118-9: Many of the survivors of the Awa'uq massacre died within the first twenty years Russian conquest, and those who lived chose not to pass the news of this horrible event on the next generation)Afognak Village Timeline
(1784 Gregorii Shelikof arrives, and Awa'uq (Refuge Rock) massacre) or Refuge Rock Massacre, '' Wounded Knee of Alaska''John Enders (1992)
Archaeologist May Have Found Site Of Alaska Massacre
''The Seattle Times'', Sunday, August 16, 1992 was a 1784

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of native

Alutiiq people The Alutiiq (pronounced in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their ancestral name ( or ; plural often "Sugpiat"), as well as Pacific Eskimo or Pacific Yupik, are a Yupi ...

on Refuge Rock (''Awa'uq'' in

Alutiiq language The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun,Grigory Shelikhov Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Григорий Иванович Шелихов in Russian) (1747, Rylsk, Belgorod Governorate – July 20, 1795 (July 31, 1795 New Style)) was a Russian seafarer, merchant, and fur trader who established a perma ...

. The Russians slaughtered 500Korry Keeker
What it means to be Alutiiq / State museum exhibit examines Kodiak-area Native culture
Friday, April 25, 2003 (or 2000Ben Fitzhugh (2003)
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: archaeological evidence from the North Pacific
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2003) men, women and children on Refuge Rock.

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Grounded Shell Oil Rig Off Alaska Coast Still Has No Flooding Or Sheening, Despite Damage
By Yereth Rosen (January 3, 2013, Anchorage) This massacre was an isolated incident, and the Alutiiq were completely subjugated by Russian traders thereafter.Aron L. Crowell (2001), ''Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People''. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001 A community nonprofit, the Old Harbor Alliance, was formed by the Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor, the city of Old Harbor and the Old Harbor Native Corporation. In 2017, they acquired a free-ranging herd of

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and released them on the island.

References

* Islands of the Kodiak Archipelago Islands of Alaska {{KodiakIslandAK-geo-stub