Papers. 1922-1973.

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Papers. 1922-1973.

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Eskimo seamstress and sole survivor of Stefansson's Wrangel Island Expedition of 1921; diary, March 14, 1923-August 20, 1923, with transcript; historical account of the expedition; newspaper accounts, including biographical information on Ada Blackjack.

13 items : ill., ports. ; 37 cm. or smaller.

Dartmouth College Library

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Wrangel Island Expedition (1921-1923)

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Knight, Errol Lorne, 1843-1923.

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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...