This week is the amazing survival and cultural re-awakening story of Ada Blackjack. Megan will go over bonus info on V. Stefansson (remember that guy?) and all the history (well, as much as we could stomach) of Wrangel Island.

Donation organizations this week should focus on the folks in Texas suffering from the extreme cold weather and lack of necessities. Here are a number of places to check out:

https://crowdsourcerescue.com/campaigns/home/223?scope_campaigns=223

https://give.salvationarmytexas.org/give/171647#!/donation/checkout

https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/

https://caritasofaustin.org/donate/give/

https://www.instagram.com/hoc.htx/

https://www.spca.org/

https://www.feedingtexas.org/

Story References

• How Megan learned Russian pronunciations: https://www.howtopronounce.com/

• Wikipedia, of course.

• Caravantes, Peggy (2016). Marooned in the Arctic : the true story of Ada Blackjack, the "female Robinson Crusoe". Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781613730980.

• Sonneborn, Liz (2007). A to Z of American Indian women (Rev. ed.). New York: Facts On File. ISBN 9780816066940.

• McClanahan, Alexandra J. "The Heroine of Wrangel Island". LitSite Alaska. University of Alaska Anchorage. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

• Healy, Luke. How to Survive in the North. NoBrow. ISBN 9781910620069.

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ada-blackjack-arctic-survivor

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25884279/

• http://www.litsitealaska.org/index.cfm?section=History-and-Culture&page=Life-in-Alaska&viewpost=2&ContentId=850

• The Heroine of Wrangel Island By Alexandra J. McClanahan

• Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition In the early 1920s, 23-year-old Blackjack endured a two-year stay on frosty Wrangel Island. BY TESSA HULLS DECEMBER 6, 2017