Bloody Falls
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Bloody Falls (or Bloody Fall, or Kogluktok, meaning "it flows rapidly" or "spurts like a cut artery" in Inuktitut)[1] is a waterfall in the Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park and is the site of the Bloody Falls Massacre and the murder of two priests by Copper Inuit Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak in 1913.[2]
The nearest hamlet, Kugluktuk, Nunavut, is 15.8 kilometres (9.8 mi) away.
Historically, this area was occupied by the Kogluktogmiut subgroup of Copper Inuit.[3]
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- ^ "Bloody Fall, Nunavut, Canada". travelingluck.com. http://travelingluck.com/North%20America/Canada/Nunavut/_5903980_Bloody+Fall.html#local_map. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
- ^ Stern, Pamela (2004). Historical dictionary of the Inuit. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 149. ISBN 0810850583. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Xa_Pq8X_MIsC. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
- ^ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1914). The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report. New York: The Trustees of the American Museum. pp. p. 27. OCLC 13626409. http://books.google.com/books?id=-NhBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=%22Prince+Albert+Sound%22&source=web&ots=P6Beu2wRa-&sig=3aBgqcaIUflYJwZp4-8ySVYkKTY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result.
Coordinates: 67°44′36.06″N 115°22′02.69″W / 67.74335°N 115.3674139°W
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