This week we talk about Susan La Flesche Picotte, an Omaha Native American who is widely acknowledged as the first Native American to earn a medical degree. Join us as we take a look at how she began her medical practice and quickly became an integral part of her community.

This week's recommendations: 

• A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita
• Medicine Woman (doc on PBS about Susan and modern healers who followed in her footsteps)
• The Break by Katherena Vermette

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Intro/Outro Music: Tripped and Fell in Love (instrumental) by Yacht.