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Author: Belinda Boelter

McGoogan Session: Native Healers: Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD

As a physician, Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD, committed to walking a line between two cultures. She learned the ways of the white medicine-men, as the first Native American to receive a western medical degree, while still maintaining the traditions of her people, Nebraska’s Omaha Tribe. Join Carrie Meyer, head of archives and special collections […]

Nov 1, 2023

Portrait of Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD, as a medical student at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, c. 1888 Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Negative 54752
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