In 1923, after every other member of an Arctic expedition either died or disappeared, Inuit seamstress Ada Blackjack survived alone on Wrangel Island by hunting foxes until rescue arrived

When Ada Blackjack agreed to join an Arctic expedition in 1921, she wasn’t seeking fame or adventure. She was a young Iñupiat woman from Alaska, and accepted the job as a cook and seamstress because she desperately needed money to pay for treatment for her son, who had tuberculosis.

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