Susan La Flesche Picotte

Born: 1865

Died: 1915

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: Native American - Omaha

Hampton University 1886; Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania 1889 MD

Field of Study: Physician

Institution/Corporation: none

Degrees & Memberships: Member: founding member of the Thurston County Medical Society (1907)

Awards: 1886 Demorest Prize Hampton University; 2017 Google Doodle; the hospital she founded in Walthill NE in 1913 & a school are named for her; statues of her are located in several places in Nebraska

Achievements: 1st person to receive federal aid for education; lobbied for the prohibition of alcohol on the reservation