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Revision as of 13:50, 4 May 2020
Sadie Neakok (born 1916) was the first female magistrate in Alaska.[1][2] She served in Alaska's Second Judicial District in Barrow, Alaska.
Personal life
Her father, Charles D. Brower, was a United States Commissioner in the Alaska territory and her mother, Ahsiangatok, was an Eskimo from the Barrow area.[3][4] Her father originally moved to the Alaska to work as a commercial whaler and was the first white settler there.[4] Neakok was born in 1916.[4] One of ten children, she was sent to San Francisco, California at the age of 14 to attend high school and then attended the University of Alaska.[3][4] After graduation, she worked first in a hospital, and then as a teacher in a Bureau of Indian Affairs school and a social worker.[5][3][4]
She married Nathaniel Neakok, a whaling boat captain[4] who also worked at the Barrow Airport, in 1940 and together they had 13 children and several foster children.[3][4] As of 1989[update], the couple had been married for over 50 years.[4] Her oldest son, Bill, was mayor of Barrow in the 1970s.[3]
In 2009, she was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.[6] She was the first woman elder in her Presbyterian church.[4]
Judicial career
She became a magistrate in Alaska's Second Judicial District when the territory gained statehood in 1958.[3] She ran the court in both the English and Eskimo languages,[3] and had to fight to allow cases to be heard in the local language when defendants did not speak English.[4] She followed Eben Hopson, who encouraged her to take the position.[5] Before a courthouse was built, she heard cases in her kitchen.[4]
Eskimo advocate
As a half Inupiaq Eskimo, Neakok was an advocate in Alaska and in Washington DC for Eskimo causes.[3] As a child, she saw the local Naval base enforcing discriminatory segregation against the native people, inspiring her to defend them.[5] As an adult, she served on the tribal council.[5]
In 1961, in response to what she viewed as an unjust hunting law, she helped organize the town into so overwhelming the game warden that he could not enforce a law regulating hunting season.[7][5][4]
See also
Refernces
- ^ "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.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Blackman, Margaret B. (1992). Sadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman. University of Washington Press. 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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