The Awa'uq Massacre or Refuge Rock Massacre, or the Wounded Knee of Alaska was an attack and massacre by Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov and 130 Russian armed men and cannoneers of Shelikhov-Golikov Company against the Qik’rtarmiut Sugpiat tribe of Koniag Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people of Kodiak Island in 1784 in Russian-controlled Alaska. It occurred on the secluded stack island Refuge Rock (Awa'uq in Alutiiq language) of Partition Cove on Sitkalidak Island, near and across Old Harbor, in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska. The Russian promyshlennikis slaughtered 500 men, women and children on Refuge Rock, though some sources state the number was 2000, or between 2,500–3,000. Following the attack of Awa'uq, Shelikhov claims to have captured over 1000 people, detaining 400 as hostages. There were no Russian casualties. This massacre was an isolated incident, and the Alutiiq were completely subjugated by Russian traders thereafter. One interpreter, Qaspeq (literally: "kuspuk"), was an Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) who had been taken as a war captive from Kodiak as a child and raised in servitude in the Aleutians. Qaspeq had once betrayed the location of a refuge island just offshore of Unalaska Island.