{"product_id":"9781250085351","title":"A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cb\u003e\"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.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   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 women could vote and thirty-five years before Native Americans could become citizens in their own country.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Omaha woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick—tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza—families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   This is the story of a Native American woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people—physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Joe Starita's \u003ci\u003eA Warrior of the People\u003c\/i\u003e is the moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte's inspirational life and dedication to public health, and it will finally shine a light on her numerous accomplishments.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A layered, nuanced portrait of this country's first [Native American] doctor . . . La Flesche's story is moving and illuminating, and Starita has done it justice.\" ―\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300797759728,"sku":"9781250085351","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250085351_p0.jpg?v=1763701853","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250085351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}