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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2001

Lucy Adams, an Athabaskan elder born in the late 1800s, died in Fairbanks on Sunday. She was at least 107.

Adams was assigned a birth date by the Bureau of Indian Affairs of July 6, 1894. She may have been older, said a family member.

Adams hardly spoke English, instead preferring Upper Tanana Athabaskan. She also lived a traditional subsistence lifestyle.

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Lifelong Alaskan dies at age 107 (AP 11/1)