The Massacre at Bloody Falls was an incident that took place during Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River in 1771. Chipewyan warriors led by Hearne's guide and companion Matonabbee discovered a group of local Inuit camped by rapids approximately 15 kilometres upstream from the mouth of the Coppermine. Just after midnight on July 17, the Chipewyan set upon the Inuit camp and killed approximately 20 men, women and children. Witnessing the massacre traumatized Hearne, and he was haunted by the memories until his death in 1792. Samuel Hearne (1745 – November 1792), English explorer of northern North America, was born in London. ... Coppermine River is a river in Fort Smith and Kitikmeot regions of Nunavut in Canada. ... The Chipewyan are an aboriginal people in Canada. ... Matonabbee (c. ... For other uses, see Inuit (disambiguation). ...
The site of the massacre is now located in Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park near Kugluktuk, Nunavut. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1978. Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park[1] [2] is located about 15 km southwest of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada. ... Kugluktuk (formerly Coppermine, and originally spelled Qurluqtuq) is located in Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island. ... Motto: Nunavut Sannginivut (Inuktitut: Nunavut our strength or Our land our strength) Capital Iqaluit Largest city Iqaluit Official languages Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English, French Government - Commissioner Ann Meekitjuk Hanson - Premier Paul Okalik (Consensus government) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 1 (Nancy Karetak-Lindell) - Senate seats 1 (Willie Adams) Confederation... National Historic Site is a designation for a protected area of historic significance. ...
References
Samuel Hearnes' Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Bloody Falls
External links
Youth Links - The Story of Bloody Falls Short article written by three Kugluktuk students.
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BloodyFalls are rapids located about 15 km above the mouth of the COPPERMINE RIVER in the central Arctic.
The falls were named by European explorer Samuel HEARNE in 1771, after he witnessed the massacre of local INUIT by a group of CHIPEWYAN travelling with his expedition.
BloodyFalls was declared a National HISTORIC SITE in 1978.
Before they reached the falls, at todays entrance to Ywahoo Falls, the Indian fighters encountered a front Cherokee guard consisting of "Big Jake" Jacob Troxell (husband to Cornblossom), a few longhunters friendly to the Cherokee mainly thru intermarriage and some remaining Thunderbolt warriors, all who were guarding the entrance to the falls.
So some say that Jacob died at this massacre to denote his final breath to save the children because that was where his heart was defending the children of a now forgotten people lost within the hills and valleys of southeast Kentucky waiting for remembrance of their families.
The fall of Standing Fern occurred at a narrow spot on the right path fighting several of the Indian fighters with the swinging of a hatchet in hand to hand combat.
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