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Biography & Autobiography. History. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. HTML: On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche 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 Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian 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 with tuberculosis, small pox, measles, and influenza, with their families scattered miles apart, and whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. This is the story of an Indian 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 and then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people�??physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually. A Warrior of the People is the moving biography of Susan La Flesche's inspirational life, the subject of the PBS documentary Medicine Woman, and it will finally shine a light on her numerous accomplishments… (more)
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My mother-in-law and I are both reading this book for a book club. We both LOVE reading. We were both really struggling to read this book for several reasons:
- It is terribly repetitive. You read about the exact same thing over and over.
- It could be shortened a lot by not listing every example of whatever is being talked about. For instance, I think it is chapter 6, it talks about how friends take her to different cultural events - it must have listed each thing she did with each person. Just summarize that.
- The chapters overlap too much.
In the end, my MIL and I decided I would read the even chapters and she would read the odd. We both read 1 -4, then I read 6, 8 and 10 and she read 5, 7 and 9. When she sent her summary of chapter 7 I had to read it twice because I thought it was my summary of the chapter I had just read.
She was so amazing, I wish this book had been amazing for her!