Sadie Neakok

Sadie Neakok (March 16, 1916 – June 13, 2004)[1] or Tagiagiña (last name pronounced Niaquq in Iñupiaq) was the first female magistrate in Alaska.

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.

[4][5] After graduation, she worked first in a hospital, and then as a teacher in a Bureau of Indian Affairs school and a social worker.

In 1992 Margaret B. Blackman wrote her biography, Sadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman.

[4] As a child, she saw the local Naval base enforcing discriminatory segregation against the native people, inspiring her to defend them.