She navigated land disputes.

She raised two sons.

She endured her own illness.

And then she looked at the limits of what one physician could do and decided to build something larger than herself.

In 1913, the hospital opened.

It did not solve every medical problem facing the Omaha Nation.

No hospital could.

But it changed the answer to a basic question.

Where could people go for care?

There was now a place.