Medicine Woman
Original title: Medicine Woman
Original language: enIMDB: tt32506572
TMDB: 811676
Release date: Friday, 12th August 2016
Adult: No
Genres:
Documentary
Duration: 0h 57min
Popularity: 0.273
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Overview: America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She graduated first in her class and returned home to serve as doctor to her Omaha tribe. During this heartbreaking and violent time she never gave up hope. The reverberations from her shattered world continue today as Native Americans suffer from alarming rates of disease, suicide and mental illness. Like Susan, these modern day medicine women from the Omaha, Lakota and Navajo tribes are fighting a war and sharing a confident, even joyful, approach to the work of healing.
Popularity: 0.273
Rate:
Overview: America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She graduated first in her class and returned home to serve as doctor to her Omaha tribe. During this heartbreaking and violent time she never gave up hope. The reverberations from her shattered world continue today as Native Americans suffer from alarming rates of disease, suicide and mental illness. Like Susan, these modern day medicine women from the Omaha, Lakota and Navajo tribes are fighting a war and sharing a confident, even joyful, approach to the work of healing.
Directors
Christine Lesiak
(Director)
(Director)Princella P. RedCorn
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Christine Lesiak (Writer)
(Writer)Cast
Irene Bedard
(Voice of Doctor Picotte (voice))
(Voice of Doctor Picotte (voice))Joy Harjo
(Self - Narrator (voice))
(Self - Narrator (voice))Videos
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