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Canada and the United States

Benson Tong. Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer. Foreword by Dennis Hastings. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1999. Pp. xix, 285. $29.95.

Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915) was probably the most famous Native American woman in this country during the decades surrounding the turn of the century. Her life was so remarkable that many Euro-Americans knew and approved of her endeavors on behalf of the Indians. Born of mixed-blood heritage into the Omaha tribe, Picotte became an advocate of assimilation after attending Hampton Institute. She then went on to become a medical doctor, the first female Native American to do so. Along with other Indian doctors of the era—Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux) and Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai)—she reached unheard of heights as a physician, reformer, and leader of her people. Following a stint as an Indian Service doctor assigned to the Omaha reservation, she lobbied forcefully against the injustices of the allotment program—which saw the Omahas lose most of their land—and against the evils of alcohol. As a monument to her life, cut short by disease, in her later years she led a drive to secure funding for a hospital to better serve the people of her hometown. . . .

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