Ada built another one.

The construction and reconstruction of the boat represents something that is easy to pass over but deeply significant: the re-instantiation, in a single person under survival pressure, of a core Iñupiat technological tradition.

Ada Blackjack had not been taught this.

But she had the hands, the material knowledge, and the practical problem-solving capacity that her heritage had produced — and when her survival required it, she reached for it.

Nursing A Dying Man While Dying Herself