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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor Audiobook
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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.
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“What was it like to be an Omaha and Ponca woman in the late-1800s, navigating the collision between Manifest Destiny and Native nations and cultures?…A taut, haunting, inspiring, honest narrative that answers these questions?and richly showcases a strong Native woman.”
— Dr. Suzan Shown Harjo, president, Morning Star Institute
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“[A] riveting story of a nineteenth-century feminist and change agent…an inspiration to those trying to break through twenty-first-century glass ceilings.”
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“Presents a layered portrait of her as a person with vulnerabilities and anxieties as well as dreams and determination. La Flesche’s story is moving and illuminating, and Starita has done it justice.”
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“Starita’s biography of this remarkable woman is both heartening and enlightening.”
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“Carrington MacDuffie offers a warm, engaging narration of this work…La Flesche was a prolific letter writer, and excerpts of those missives make her story more personal.”
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“Bravo, Joe. Thank you for introducing all of us to a new hero.”
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“I would recommend this book to all for its integrity and delicate humanity.”
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“What was it like to be an Omaha and Ponca woman in the late-1800s, navigating the collision between Manifest Destiny and Native nations and cultures?…A taut, haunting, inspiring, honest narrative that answers these questions―and richly showcases a strong Native woman.”
— Dr. Suzan Shown Harjo, president, Morning Star Institute
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About Joe Starita
Joe Starita is the author of several books, including I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice and The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, which was nominated for the Pultizer Prize and won the MPIBA Award. He was the New York bureau chief for Knight-Ridder newspapers and a veteran investigative reporter for the Miami Herald. His stories won more than two dozen awards, one of which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for local reporting. He has held an endowed chair at the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
About Carrington MacDuffie
Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel.