A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Do…

“An important and riveting story of a 19th-century feminist and change agent . . . put[s] the reader inside the very thoughts and emotions of La Flesche.” —Chicago Tribune On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree—becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before wom...