| LC control no. | n 2003096716 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blackjack, Ada, 1898-1983 |
| Variant(s) | Johnson, Ada Blackjack, 1898-1983 Deletuk, Ada, 1898-1983 |
| Birth date | 1898-05-10 |
| Death date | 1983-05-29 |
| Found in | Niven, Jennifer. Ada Blackjack, 2003: CIP t.p. (Ada Blackjack; was 25 in 1923) http://www.ciri.com/newsletter/july2001/history.html Web site, Nov. 18, 2003 (Ada Blackjack Johnson; b. Solomon, Alaska, May 10, 1898; d. Palmer, May 29, 1983) The disastrous Wrangel Island expedition, 2022: CIP galley (Ada Deletuk; Ada Blackjack; Ada Blackjack Johnson; born in 1898 in a small village near Nome, Alaska; her family was Inuit; she was raised by white Methodist missionaries; at the age of 16, Ada married Jack Blackjack; mother of three children, but two died; after her husband abandoned the family, she worked as a seamstress; joined Stefansson's expedition to Wrangel Island, Russia to make money; the expedition began on Sept. 16, 1921; Ada returned as the sole survivor in Aug. 2023; she married again and had another son in 1924) |
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