#OnThisDay in #history - in 1915, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte died aged 50. She was a public health and Indigenous rights advocate. As a child, she saw an older Indigenous woman die after a white doctor refused to treat her. This pushed Susan to become a physician herself, and she was one of, if not the first Indigenous person in the US to do so. She was valedictorian in her medical school cohort and went on to campaign for temperance and TB prevention and education. #OTD#histodons@histodons
