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Medicine woman / producer, director, writer, Christine M. Lesiak ; producer, researcher, director, Princella P. RedCorn ; produced by NET Television ; a presentation of Vision Maker Media ; with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Lesiak, Christine, (film director,, film producer,, screenwriter.). Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (Organization), (film producer,, production company.).

Summary:

Medicine Woman, interweaves the lives of Native American women healers of today with the story of America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). The one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women, features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting with Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Nebraska] : NET, Nebraska PBS Station, [2016]
  • Distributor: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Distributed by Vision Maker Media

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Meet the first Native American doctor and the women who follow in her footsteps."--Disc label & Container.
Originally produced as an episode of the television series.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Edited by Pat Aylward.
Participant or Performer Note:
Narrator, Joy Harjo; voice of Susan Picotte, Irene Bedard.
System Details Note:
DVD; NTSC, Region 1.
Language Note:
In English; closed-captioned in English.
Subject:
Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, 1865-1915.
Omaha women > Biography.
Indian women physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Women physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Indian women physicians.
Omaha women.
Physicians.
Women physicians.
Nebraska.
Physicians, Women.
Indians, North American.
Health Services, Indigenous.
Community Health Services.
Nebraska.
Genre:
Biographical films.
Biography.
Documentary films.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library DVD 29 R 154 .P53 M43 2016 289050 DVD Available -