Nebraska Stories: Against the Current
Clip: Season 7 Episode 2 | 6m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
A profile of the first Native American doctor.
As a child in frontier Nebraska, Susan La Flesche witnessed the death of a member of her tribe--because the agency doctor never showed up. The experience drove her to accomplish the seemingly impossible--to become the first Native American doctor and to build her own hospital on the Omaha reservation. Omaha means "against the current" -- so she was just being true to her Omaha culture.
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Nebraska Stories is a local public television program presented by Nebraska Public Media
Nebraska Stories: Against the Current
Clip: Season 7 Episode 2 | 6m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
As a child in frontier Nebraska, Susan La Flesche witnessed the death of a member of her tribe--because the agency doctor never showed up. The experience drove her to accomplish the seemingly impossible--to become the first Native American doctor and to build her own hospital on the Omaha reservation. Omaha means "against the current" -- so she was just being true to her Omaha culture.
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