Ada Blackjack and her son

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Ada Blackjack and her son

1924

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/854

Photograph of Ada Delutuk Blackjack and her son, published in the Los Angeles Times along with an article [not pictured] about her experiences as the sole survivor of an arctic expedition.

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11657130

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983

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Ada Delutuk Blackjack was born on May 10, 1898 in the Iñupiat village of Spruce Creek, in what was then known as the District of Alaska. Her mother sent her to Nome when she was eight years old. There, Methodist missionaries taught her to read, write, and sew. Also called Ada Blackjack Johnson, she married, had children with, and divorced a man named Johnson. Far from home and without money, she was forced to place their only surviving son, Bennett, in an orphanage and found work as a seamstress...