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Ada blackjack biography
Ada Blackjack
Iñupiat explorer (1898–1983)
Ada Blackjack | |
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Ada Blackjack with her son Bennett, 1923 | |
| Born | Ada Delutuk (1898-05-10)May 10, 1898 Solomon, Alaska |
| Died | May 29, 1983(1983-05-29) (aged 85) Palmer, Alaska |
| Nationality | Iñupiat |
Ada Blackjack (néeDelutuk; May 10, 1898 – May 29, 1983) was an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia.
Background
Ada Delutuk was born on May 10, 1898 or 1899,[1][2] in the remote settlement of Spruce Creek, 8 mi (13 km) from Solomon, Alaska. Ada's father died of food poisoning when she was eight years old, and her mother sent her and her sister, Rita, to a Methodist mission school in Nome, Alaska.[3][4] She was raised by missionaries who taught her to read English and sew.[5] She married Jack Blackjack, a former hunter and dogsled driver, at age 16 and moved to the Seward Pen