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Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Indigenous peoples of the United States
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