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<h1><span class="date">1920s: </span> <span class="title">Iñupiaq traditional healer becomes a midwife</span></h1>
<p>Della Keats, an Iñupiaq from Kotzebue, Alaska, is a traditional healer, locally called a doctor. Born in 1907, she lives a traditional subsistence lifestyle, and educates herself in anatomy and traditional healing practices of the Iñupiaq. She treats Alaska Natives and whites and trains to be a midwife in the 1920s. She delivers babies for 30 years.</p>
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<p>Midwife and healer Della Keats, Iñupiaq, cooks <em>muktuk</em> (whale skin and blubber), in a traditional manner, Sisualik, Alaska, 1952</p>
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<p>Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks</p>
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<p>Midwife and healer, Della Keats, Iñupiaq, and her mother, Jenny Mitchell, preparing fish in a traditional manner at Sisualik Noatak camp, Alaska, 1952</p>
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