The building is dedicated to sharing the story of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, who became the first Native American to earn ...

The building is dedicated to sharing the story of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, who became the first Native American to earn a medical degree in 1889 and then returned to the Omaha reservation to ...

In 1889 — 132 years before the ask — La Flesche made American history when she became the first Native American to earn a medical degree. Born in a tipi in 1865 on the Omaha reservation in northeast ...

Native American News; First Native hospital, built by nation’s first Native doctor, to again care for Nebraskans. Published: ; Jun. 16, 2025, 12:25 p.m.

Lovejoy Brown calls the famed Native doctor “the definition of Omaha” because, she said, the word Omaha means “against the current.” As a child, La Flesche watched as a white doctor ...