Our next meeting will be Sunday February 12 at 2pm at Penny Eccleston’s. For that meeting bring poetry to read and share. Our March meeting will be Sunday March 12 at 2pm at Penny Eccleston’s. We will be reading: A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become…
Our next meeting will be Sunday February 12 at 2pm at Penny Eccleston’s. For that meeting bring poetry to read and share.
Our March meeting will be Sunday March 12 at 2pm at Penny Eccleston’s. We will be reading:
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
by Joe Starita | Jul 10, 2018
The poignant and moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U.S. history.
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte 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 Native 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- 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 bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people-physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.
This book is available on Amazon. It is not available through the Bartlesville Library.
By Franny Hildabrand
