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A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor / Joe Starita.

by Starita, Joe.

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St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, 1865-1915.

Indian women physicians -- Nebraska -- Biography.

Indian women -- Nebraska -- Biography.

Women physicians -- Nebraska -- Biography.

Omaha women -- Biography.

Omaha Indians -- Biography.

Nebraska -- Biography.

9781250085344 (hc.)

xiv, 304 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

The arrow -- The village of the make-believe White men -- An Indian schoolgirl and the Harvard scholar -- Can Black children and Red children become White citizens? -- The Sisterhood of Second Mothers -- Dr. Sue -- Going home -- The light in the window -- A warrior of the people -- A beginning and an end.

Susan LaFlesche Picotte was born in June 1865 on the Omaha reservation in eastern Nebraska. Her mother, Waoo-Winchatcha (Mary Gale), was half French and half Omaha. Her father, Joseph LaFlesche, also called Iron Eye, was also half white and half Omaha. Like Waoo-Winchatcha, he identified himself as Omaha. Though women were often healers in Omaha society, it was uncommon for a Victorian woman to go to medical school. There were only a few medical schools which accepted women in the late 19th century. LaFlesche was accepted at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. In March 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick with tuberculosis, small pox, measles or influenza, families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. The story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.

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