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Reader’s Circle: A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita

March 29, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Douglas County Historical Society’s (DCHS) monthly book club, Reader’s Circle, announces its March meeting which will be on Wednesday, March 29 at Noon at the General Crook House Museum.

March’s book will be A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita. This book is an official selection of the Nebraska 150 Celebrations.

On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. 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. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick―tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza―families scattered miles apart, 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, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people―physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.

Reader’s Circle meets on the last Wednesday of each month except for December and selects books that are either from a Douglas County author or relate to Douglas County history. However, in honor of the state’s sesquicentennial celebrations the scope is being expanded to include selections on the Nebraska 150 official reading list.

Attendees to each meeting will be offered coffee along with an assorted tray of treats provided by local favorite, Dugger’s Café.

If you are interested in participating in the Reader’s Circle, please call 402-455-9990 ext. 101 or email Members@DouglasCoHistory.org. Cost to participate is $5 for members and $10 for non members.

Details

Date:
March 29, 2017
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Organizer

Douglas County Historical Society

Venue

General Crook House Museum
5730 N 30th St.
Omaha, NE 68111 United States
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Phone
402-455-9990
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