How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
What we do know is that she repeatedly chose a harder geography.
The Omaha Reservation was not simply where she had been born.
It was the center of her professional purpose.
She knew the families.
She understood the politics.
She knew which roads became impossible in bad weather.
She knew where disease was spreading.
She knew which officials were failing.
She knew which promises had been broken.
Knowledge of place made her medicine different from the medicine of an outsider arriving temporarily.
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