Susan La Flesche Picotte, Native American physician (died 1915)

Susan La Flesche Picotte

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…