Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
If you’ve ever read the children’s book Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, you might not know it was inspired by a true story. The classic book, published in 1960, was based on the true story of a Native American woman who lived by herself on an island off the coast of California for 18 years from 1835-1853.
The true story centers around a woman who was a member of the Nicoleño tribe, who had inhabited San Nicolas Island, 61 miles off the coast of California, for 10,000 years before Native Alaskan hunters descended on the island and killed many of the Nicoleõs.
An agreement was eventually worked out in 1835 that the surviving members of the tribe would be relocated to the…
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