Carlos Montezuma
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Carlos Montezuma or Wassaja was a Yavapai-Apache Native American physician, activist, and founding member of the Society of American Indians. His birth name, Wassaja, means "Signaling" or "Beckoning"
Montezuma during his career as Native American rights activist
Wassaja magazine. April 1916.
The grave of Dr. Carlos Montezuma in "Ba Dah Mod Jo" Cemetery.
Susan La Flesche Picotte
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Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous wom
Carlos Montezuma
…University of Illinois and Northwestern University, and only the second Native American ever to earn a medical degree in an American University after Susan La Flesche Picotte. Wassaja was the first Native American male to receive a medical degree. Until his death Wassaja fought to support the rights of his Yavapai people and…
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
The Missouri River near the Omaha Indian Reservation
The first building that housed the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, c. 1850
Early photo of Susan La Flesche Picotte