Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799

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Unangan and Sugpiaq organize resistance against Russian occupation (Alaska)

Map of Umnak Island. Image: Dr. Blofeld
Map of Umnak Island. Image: Dr. Blofeld

For more than 20 years Russians have continued massacres, sexual exploitation of women, and taking of Indigenous lands. The Sugpiaq rebel and organize an uprising with multiple Unangan/Eastern Aleut tribes, who attack four Russian ships simultaneously at Umnak, Unimak, and Unalaska. Only 12 Russian traders survive of the 200 attacked. (http://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/jhaighalaskahistory/files/2018/02/Chapter-4-Unangan-and-Sugpiaq-.pdf)

Native Resistance