A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story plants and herded into wretched reservations

and herded into wretched reservations

and ceremonies that marked the individual's passage from birth to death

Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land

Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story plants and herded into wretched reservations"This moving retelling of a heroic womans journey demonstrates that history lives through an intimate connection between two women beyond times borders."Booklist, starred review In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through