Ada Blackjack inducted into Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame

Ada Blackjack inducted into Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame

By Ariana Crockett O'Harra Ada Blackjack was inducted posthumously in the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame last week. Ada Blackjack was an Inupiaq woman who reluctantly rose to fame as the only survivor of a doomed expedition to Wrangel Island from 1921 to 1923. Ada Delutuk was born in 1898 in Spruce Creek, in the Topkok Hills near Klokerblok River. When she was eight, her mother sent her to a school run by missionaries in Nome where she learned to…