Joe Starita

"On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche 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. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 850 square miles of rolling countryside...

Chronicles the life of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who journeyed six hundred miles on foot to return the body of his only son to his people's traditional burial ground; and also discusses the United States government's relationship with the tribe.