In 1921, 23-year-old Ada Blackjack set sail for Wrangel Island, a remote island north of Siberia, with four men and a female cat named Vic. She was a seamstress and would be sewing survival gear there ...

When Ada Blackjack agreed to join an Arctic expedition in 1921, she wasn’t seeking fame or adventure. She was a young Iñupiat ...

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, ...

On September 16, 1921, Ada Blackjack watched as four white men planted a British flag on the shore of a desolate Siberian island. The group had been sent by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canadian-born ...

Except for the polar bears, a corpse, and a small house cat named Vic, Ada Blackjack found herself alone on Wrangel Island in late June 1923. Nearly two years had passed since a schooner dropped her ...

A new Alaska short film tells the story of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who survived alone on a remote island after an expedition gone wrong in 1921. The film, “Ada Blackjack Rising,” was released ...

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 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 ...