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Article Title: Susan LaFlesche Picotte: Nebraska’s Indian , 1865-1915

Full Citation: Valerie Sherer Mathes, “Susan La Flesche Picotte: Nebraska’s Indian Physician, 1865-1915,” Nebraska History 63 (1982): 502-530

URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1982SLaFPicotte.pdf Date: 4/20/2012

Article Summary: Susan La Flesche Picotte graduated from at a time when very few women did so. As the only doctor serving her Omaha tribe, she traveled long distances to visit patients in their homes in all kinds of weather. In later years she also became politically active on behalf of the Omaha.

Cataloging Information:

Names: Susan LaFlesche Picotte, Joseph LaFlesche, Marguerite LaFlesche, Rosalie La Flesche, Samuel Armstrong, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Martha M Waldron, Sara Thomson Kinney, Thomas Ikinicapi, Henry Picotte

Place Names: Omaha Agency, Thurston and Cuming Counties; Walthill

Schools Attended by Susan LaFlesche Picotte: Presbyterian Mission School, Omaha Agency; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, ; Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

Keywords: Susan LaFlesche Picotte, Omaha Indians, Indian Removal Act (1830), Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Omaha Agency, Presbyterian Mission School, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Connecticut Indian Association, Office of Indian Affairs, influenza, , , Dr Susan Picotte Memorial

Photographs / Images: 1886 graduation class, Hampton (Virginia) Institute, including graduates Susan LaFlesche and her sister Lucy LaFlesche; ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher; Susan LaFlesche Picotte about 1898; Picotte’s Walthill residence, new in 1908; Omaha chief Joseph (Iron Eye) LaFlesche, Susan’s father; Susan’s sons Caryl and Pierre

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