The Native Alaskan Survival Story That Revealed How Indigenous Knowledge Helped Humans Adapt To One Of Earth’s Harshest Environments
She dropped in and out of poverty.
She died in 1983, in Palmer, Alaska.
She was eighty-five years old.
The cat, Victoria, had also survived Wrangel Island and returned with the rescue party.
Victoria’s fate after Nome is not recorded.
Jennifer Niven’s 2004 biography, Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, finally provided the comprehensive account that Ada’s story had deserved for eighty years.
Niven worked from the diaries that Dartmouth College had preserved in its collections — the same diaries that Noice had taken from Ada — and from other expedition records to construct the most complete account yet published.
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