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Bloody Falls
Bloody Falls
is a
waterfall
in the
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park
in
Nunavut, Canada
. It was the
site
of the
Bloody Falls Massacre
in
1771
and the murder of two priests by
Copper Inuit
Uloqsaq
and Sinnisiak in 1913.
The
nearest
hamlet
,
Kugluktuk, Nunavut
, is away.
Historically, this area was
occupied
by the
Kogluktogmiut
subgroup of Copper
Inuit
.
In
1978
, the portion of the
Territorial Park
northwest
of the
Coppermine River
was
designated
the
Bloody Falls National Historic Site of Canada
, as the
archaeological remains
of
pre-contact
hunting
and
fishing
sites
in the area form
a record
of the presence of
Pre-Dorset
,
Thule
,
First Nation
and
Inuit peoples
over the last 3000 years.