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A little repetitive in parts but what a woman! She was amazing and so devoted to her people. #nonfictionnovember

Susan La Flesche, youngest daughter of the last Omaha chief, overcame every obstacle to become America‘s first Native doctor. She was raised in both the Native & the white ways, her father believed it would give her a better chance at surviving the coming tide. She decided at a young age that becoming a doctor would be the best way for her to serve her people & she fought to accomplish it.
It got a bit repetitive in places but overall very good.

There are several biographies of this remarkable woman. Throughout my reading of this story I was shadowed by the thought of how like a doom laden fairytale it was. Susan was assimilated. She fought for the health of her people and in spite of her efforts and the desires of her people the US failed them in order to serve itself.

When your appointment gets pushed back an hour, you sit in the car and read. Problem is, I think I‘m going to finish this before my appointment. I should have brought a back up book. 😢

I found a lovely park to enjoy my book & lunch for a bit. Now that the weather is getting nicer I plan on doing this more often. Since I travel around Omaha for work, my plan is to see how many different parks I can find to have lunch at 😉🌳🌞

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A biography of the first Native American to receive a medical degree. 30+ years before women could vote and before Native Americans obtained citizenship. After graduating valedictorian, she returned to #Nebraska to open a hospital on the reservation that showcased new, trailblazing treatments. #NebraskaBooks

First audio book of 2018! Susan LaFlesche was a fascinating woman. Carrington MacDuffie provided a soothing and confident reading. It's a shame the writing was a mess. Everything felt really chaotic and disorganised. Topics seemed to jump here and there, and out of order. It is a shame, because the content was so interesting.

An interesting story you would never learn in school unless maybe you live in or around Omaha Nebraska. It's the telling of a Native woman that overcame tremendous odds to become a doctor in the late 1800's. You'll also find some interesting women's history in this book.

For as much as this book is about Susan La Flesche and the intensity for which she fought for the good of her people, the emphasis of how hard she struggled lies in contrast to the apathetic, if not outright unhelpful, government she appealed to constantly. A book both about a changing community, for better or for worse, and the woman who embodied that change.

The adults wanted to put feathers on the little girl's head, but Susan explained that Indian women didn't wear head feathers. Then Susan told the friends she came with that the adults would probably end up putting feathers on the little girl anyway. And they did. But "how could they do it when it wasn't so?" the friends asked Susan.

A group of [...] savages [...] had taken on the world's finest cavalry [...] and wiped out their glorious commander and his five companies to the last man.

The generals were furious, and [...] one thing crystallized in the minds of the nation's leaders: The western territories could never be settled [...] until the likes of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and all of the Lakota and their allies were crushed, broken, and confined to reservations.