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Portrait of La Flesche, a light-skinned Indigenous woman with dark, slicked back hair into a bun, dressed in a coat and looking off screen.
Susan La Flesche Picotte (Photo: Nebraska Commission of Indian Affairs).

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha) becomes the first Native person to graduate from medical school.

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Susan La Flesche Picotte (Photo: Nebraska Commission of Indian Affairs).

Dr. Picotte works on the newly-defined reservation system, fighting for Native care and against the distribution of alcohol on tribal land. She is, at one point, the only physician on a 1,350 square mile reservation. She will eventually open the county's first modern hospital in Walthill, NE in 1915.