How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
She became valedictorian.
On March 14, 1889, she received her medical degree.
She was twenty-three years old.
The milestone is often phrased as “the first Native American woman doctor.”
Some sources go further and describe her as the first Native American to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Historical terminology varies, and care is needed when defining “firsts.”
But the central achievement is secure: Susan La Flesche became the first Native American woman in the United States known to earn a medical degree.
She now possessed the credential that could have opened a very different life.
She could have stayed east.
She did not.
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