Sitkalidak Island


Sitkalidak Island is an island in the western Gulf of Alaska in the Kodiak Island Borough of the state of Alaska, United States. It lies just off the southeast shore of Kodiak Island, across the Sitkalidak Strait from the city of Old Harbor. The island has a land area of and no resident population.

Massacre

The Awa'uq Massacre or Refuge Rock Massacre, Wounded Knee of Alaska was a 1784 massacre of native Alutiiq people on Refuge Rock by Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov. The Russians slaughtered 500 men, women and children on Refuge Rock. This massacre was an isolated incident, and the Alutiiq were completely subjugated by Russian traders thereafter.