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She married her cousin, trading-post manager William R. Ford, with whom she had two daughters, but was widowed in August 1913 when Ford drowned. After this she spent some time in
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Indiana authors and their books 1917–1966; A continuation of Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1816–1916, and containing additional names from the earlier period
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as an interpreter. In Blackmore's recounting, her mother was an Inuit woman, although company archives suggest her mother was from
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Cold Comforts: Women Making Inuit and Qallunaat Homes in the Eastern Arctic and North American Cultures of Exploration, 1890-1940
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In 1940, Blackmore collaborated with American children's writer Heluiz Chandler Washburne to write an autobiography,
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Blackmore died of a heart attack on 13 January 1965 in Ashland, Kansas, where she had been engaged to lecture.
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woman on the American platform", and spoke about her life experience in the eastern Arctic.
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cartoonist Chic Jackson who, around 1929, helped her establish herself on the
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in about 1890. Her father was George (or Yorgke) Ford, who worked for the
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Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography
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Land of the Good Shadows: The Life Story of Anauta, an Eskimo Woman
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Canadian people who self-identify as being of Indigenous descent
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Canadian Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition
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Bataille, Gretchen M.; Lisa, Laurie (16 December 2003).
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Wild Like the Foxes: The True Story of an Eskimo Girl
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A flyer showing a woman dressed in Inuit costume
Baffin Island
Ashland, Kansas
Inuit
Baffin Island
Hudson's Bay Company
Newfoundland
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Montreal, Quebec
Detroit, Michigan
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis Star
lecture circuit
Eskimo
John Day Company






Indiana authors and their books 1917–1966; A continuation of Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1816–1916, and containing additional names from the earlier period
Canadian Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition




Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography
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978-1-4438-2626-6

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