The Native Alaskan Survival Story That Revealed How Indigenous Knowledge Helped Humans Adapt To One Of Earth’s Harshest Environments
He wrote relatively little about Ada Blackjack, and he gave her no credit commensurate with what she had actually done.
He had promised her royalties from the book; she received none.
The book’s premise — that the Arctic was accessible, friendly, exploitable — did not survive the twentieth century unmodified.
The series of Arctic expeditions that Stefansson and others organized, many of which ended in disaster when Western-educated people attempted to live in the Arctic without Indigenous knowledge, gradually produced a different understanding.
The Arctic was not friendly or hostile in the abstract.
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