Ada obtained a divorce before her husband could return and walked forty miles with Bennet to Nome, where her mother was living. Jack abused Ada, finally deserting her and their surviving son, Bennet. The Blackjacks had three children, only one of whom survived infancy. She married Jack Blackjack, a former hunter and dogsled driver, at age 16 and moved to the Seward Peninsula. She was raised by missionaries who taught her to read English and sew. Ada's father died of food poisoning when she was eight years old, and her mother sent her and her sister, Rita, to a Methodist mission school in Nome, Alaska. Ada Blackjack ( née Delutuk – May 29, 1983) was an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia.Īda Blackjack Johnson was born in the remote settlement of Spruce Creek, eight miles from Solomon, Alaska.
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