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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
- Title
- A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor / Joe Starita.
- Author
- Starita, Joe
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | R154.P53 S73 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "On March 14, 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 850 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. This is 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 bi-cultural identity to improve the lot of her people--physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually."--
- Subject
- Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, 1865-1915
- Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, 1865-1915
- Picotte, Susan LaFlesche 1865-1915
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Indian women physicians > Nebraska > Biography
- Omaha women > Biography
- Women physicians
- Indians of North America
- Physicians, Women
- Indians, North American
- physicians
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Native Americans
- HISTORY > Social History
- Women physicians
- Indians of North America
- Indian women physicians
- Omaha women
- Ärztin
- Indianerin
- Native American women > Nebraska > Biography
- Women physicians > Nebraska > Biography
- Nebraska
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781250085344
- 1250085349
- 9781250085351 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016030767
- OCLC
- ocn959372317
- 959372317
- SCSB-1869743
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library