An Alaska filmmaker celebrated Indigenous Peoples' Day on Monday by releasing a short film that tells the story of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who survived two years on an uninhabited island, ...

Ada Blackjack, an Alaskan Inuit, was a 23-year-old single mother with a sick child and desperate to earn a living when she was hired to join an exploratory expedition to Wrangel Island, in the Arctic ...

I lean on my truck’s open tailgate, peeking into the small soft-sided kennel. When I unzip the carrier, two dark eyes with a baby Yoda face and Einstein eyebrows peer up at me. I say, “Hi puppy” and ...

In the pre-dawn twilight of an Alaskan shore, a young Native woman reflects on the story of Ada Blackjack, the sole survivor of a disastrous 1921 Arctic expedition, and the loneliness she must have ...

Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman, was the only surviving member of an expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921. Ada was employed as a seamstress and cook for four explorers, who hoped to ...