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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.
The location of the Russian settlement at Katlianski Bay, "Redoubt Saint Michael", is known today as Starrigavan Bay, or "Old Harbor" (from Russian старая гавань stáraya gavanʼ) The outpost consisted of a large warehouse, blacksmith shop, cattle sheds, barracks, stockade, block house, a bath house, quarters for the hunters, and a ...
Aside from boundary adjustments to the Alaska Panhandle, stemming from the Alaska boundary dispute of the late 19th century, this is the current boundary of the state of Alaska. In 1839 the RAC-HBC Agreement was signed, giving the Hudson's Bay Company a lease of the southeastern sector of what is now the Alaska Panhandle, as far north as 56 ...
The Russian government decided the amount of other pelts that were equivalent to the sable pelt. Within forty years, almost all Siberian natives were forced into paying fur tribute to the Russians. [9] Russian traders, hunters, and explorers reached the Pacific coastline by 1650 and were collecting fur tribute from most natives along the coast. [9]
Two Russians sought asylum in Alaska after arriving in a boat. Alaska lawmakers want federal help in case more Russians fleeing service in the Ukraine war follow.
The U.S. Naval Institute has assessed that Moscow deployed trained dolphins to protect a base in the Black Sea from potential Ukrainian attacks. According to a submarine analyst, the dolphins may ...
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Thursday criticized what she called a “lacking” federal government response to two Russians who landed in her state earlier this week claiming asylum. The two ...