Maka Keixé Yaxtí Monture

Ada Blackjack Rising

Brice Habeger

Maddy Kiminaq Alvanna-Stimpfle, Maka Keixé Yaxtí Monture

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 felt waiting for a rescue through the months-long polar night.