Susan La Flesche Picotte
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Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree.
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The Missouri River near the Omaha Indian Reservation
The first building that housed the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, c. 1850
Early photo of Susan La Flesche Picotte
A 19th-century stethoscope
A public health poster from the 1920s, part of the campaign against tuberculosis in which Picotte participated
A map of the original lands held by the Omaha and other Plains tribes (in green), and their reservations (in orange). The Omaha reservation borders the Winnebago reservation in eastern Nebraska
Susan La Flesche Picotte House in Walthill, Nebraska, where she lived from 1907 until her death in 1915In their orbit 2
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Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe. She served as a physician to over 1,200 Omaha people on the reservation, working under conditions of significant pay disparity compared to white government doctors. In 1913, after no Commissioner of Indian Affairs during her life supported government-funded hospital for Native Americans, she founded the Walthill Hospital, the first privately funded hospital on a Native American reservation.
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