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Originally Posted by explorenorth
That's "Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic" by Jennifer Niven. Available for $1.25 and up at ABEBooks.com
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A few other things should be pointed out. It is not a novel, but a history. Ada Blackjack was not Aleut either; she was born in Soloman, lived mostly in Nome, and was Inupiat Eskimo. (She was rather attractive when she was young, lived into her 80's, and is buried in Anchorage.)
The expedition to Wrangell Island was a project of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The intent was to claim Wrangell Island for either Canada or Britain (not the US). That has to be considered as nothing more than a hairbrained bit of poppycock!
The US in the 1820's had threatened Russia with military action if they tried to claim any "Right of Discovery" in North America (the Monroe Doctrine, which basially declared that Right of Discovery was a dead issue and in the Western Hemisphere the US would enforce that with military action if necessary). Hence the concept of claiming ownership of Wrangell Island could not have been well founded even in the late 1800's.
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