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Margaret B. Blackman (born 1944) is an anthropologist known for her work with the Haida First Nation of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada, beginning in the 1970s.

She is an emeriti professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Brockport.

She published a collaborative biography of the Haida artist Florence Davidson, published in 1982. In 1992 she published Sadie Brower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman. Sadie Neakok was the first female magistrate in Alaska.

Margaret is currently mayor of Brockport, New York.

Selected works

  • Blackman, Margaret (1982; rev. ed., 1992) During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN: 9780295959436
  • Davidson, Robert, and Margaret B. Blackman (1992) Foreword. Raven's Cry by Christie Harris. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.
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