This week in 1784, the Awa’uq Massacre took place near Kodiak Island, Alaska. Russian colonists killed hundreds of Koniag Alutiiq men, women, and children, marking one of the darkest chapters in Alaska’s history. One survivor later recalled that the “stench of the corpses lying on the shore polluted the air so badly” that it was impossible to remain at the site.
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