Sadie Neakok
Sadie Neakok (March 16, 1916 – June 13, 2004)
Personal life
Her father, Charles D. Brower, was a United States Commissioner in the Alaska territory and her mother, Ahsiangatok (Asiaŋŋataq), was Iñupiaq from the Barrow area.
She married Nathaniel Neakok, a whaling boat captain
She died in 2004. In 1992 Margaret B. Blackman wrote her biography, Sadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman.[5]
In 2009, Neakok was inducted into the
Judicial career
She became a magistrate in Alaska's Second Judicial District when the territory gained statehood in 1958.[4] She ran the court in both the English and Iñupiaq languages,[4] and had to fight to allow cases to be heard in the local language when defendants did not speak English.[5] She followed Eben Hopson, who encouraged her to take the position.[6] Before a courthouse was built, she heard cases in her kitchen.[5]
Inuit advocate
As a half
In 1961, in response to what she viewed as an unjust hunting law, she helped organize The Barrow Duck-In.[8][6][5]
See also
References
- ^ "Sadie Neakok". Fold3. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Profiles in Change: Names, Notes and Quotes for Alaskan Women – Sadie Neakok". www.alaskool.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ United States of American Congressional Record. Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Burks, Edward C. (December 13, 1971). "Her Court Is on Arctic Shores, Her Cause Is Eskimos' Rights". The New York Times. p. 50. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-295-97180-3. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Sadie Neakok". Alaskool. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ^ "Sadie Naekok". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ^ Burwell, Mitchel. ""Hunger Knows No Law" : Seminal Native Protest and The Barrow Duck-In of 1961" (PDF). Berring Straight School District. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
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