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

and herded into wretched reservations

Grandma and the kids enjoy a day of jigging in the ice for fish

Her grandmother is an expert baker

" --Booker Prize committee

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

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