 Bloody Falls massacre

The Bloody Falls massacre was an incident believed to have taken place during Hudson Bay Company employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River for copper deposits near modern-day Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada on 17 July 1771.Hearne's original travelogue is now lost, and the narrative that became the famous story was published after Hearne's death with substantial editorializing.