Susan La Flesche Picotte

Saturday, June 17, 2017 All day

Omaha Indigenous physician and reformer (1865–1915) Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe. She served as a physician to over 1,200 Omaha people on the reservation, working under conditions of significant pay disparity compared to white government doctors. In 1913, after no Commissioner of Indian Affairs during her life supported government-funded hospital for Native Americans, she founded the Walthill Hospital, the first privately funded hospital on a Native American reservation. 261,714 views on June 17, 2017 — Wikipedia's most-read article that day. Also most read: Tupac Shakur, Gal Gadot, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, Wonder Woman (2017 film). Wiki link

Susan La Flesche Picotte