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Kodiak Island was explored in 1763 by Russian fur trader Stepan Glotov. The first outsiders to settle on the island were Russian explorers under Grigory Shelikhov, a fur trader, who founded a Russian settlement on Kodiak Island at Three Saints Bay in 1784; the present-day village of Old Harbor developed near there.
Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded the second permanent Russian settlement in Alaska (after Unalaska, permanently settled since 1774) on the island's Three Saints Bay. [citation needed] In 1790, Shelekhov, back in Russia, hired Alexander Andreyevich Baranov to manage his Alaskan fur-enterprise.
In 1783–1785, Izmaylov and Grigory Shelikhov made their historic voyage from Okhotsk to Kodiak Island, where they founded the first Russian settlement in America. In 1789, Izmaylov became the first to explore and map the Kenai Peninsula.
Afognak (/ ə ˈ f ɒ ɡ n æ k /; also Agw'aneq [1] in Alutiiq was an Alutiiq village on the island of Afognak in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. It was located on Afognak Bay on the southwest coast of the island, three miles north of Kodiak Island. [2] The site is now within the CDP of Aleneva.
Their destination was the Russian settlement on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, some 8,000 miles away across the length of Asia through Siberia and then the Bering Sea of the northern Pacific Ocean. The group arrived on Kodiak Island on September 24, 1794, to an unexpected scene. The settlement was primitive beyond what they were told, and ...
The settlement was divided among regional, urban, and village corporations, which managed their funds with varying degrees of success. Map of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Though a pipeline from the North Slope to the nearest ice-free port , almost 800 miles (1,300 km) to the south, was the only way to get Alaska's oil to market, significant ...
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 Koniag region comprises Kodiak Island and the Kodiak Archipelago and a small portion of the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula.Koniag's original land entitlement under ANCSA was 895 acres (3.6 km 2), plus the subsurface estate of lands allocated to village corporations in the Koniag region.