On Some White Women in the Wilds of Northern North America

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Boyd, Josephine W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1974
• Subjects: Stellaria; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Indian; Inuvik; Josephine; Peary; Spence; Barrow; eskimo*; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65923

. Although some Viking woman undoubtedly preceded her onto the North American continent, Natalya Shelekhov became the first European female in Alaska when she and her merchant husband spent four years (1783-1787) on Kodiak Island. . In Canada, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Indian women...