Medicine Woman | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She | dG1fSGpwZjdOVERFRWc

Transcript

00:00It has always been a desire of mine to study medicine, ever since I was a small girl.

00:08For even then, I saw the needs of my people for a good physician.

00:15What does it take to heal a people?

00:19Sometimes I have to take a break, just burn a little and just say a little prayer, you

00:23know.

00:24I don't know what I'm going to face when I walk through those hospital doors.

00:29If I don't do this, I will not become a physician.

00:33If I do become a physician, I may be able to take care of thousands of patients.

00:38I may be able to save hundreds of lives.

00:43When I first came here, I could be on call every other night and I could save lives.

00:50And I did.

00:51One of the lives she saved was that of her adopted son.

00:56When he was born, he had a lot of medical issues.

00:58He went through withdrawal.

00:59And he knows how to say wakalapi.

01:04Coffee, wakalapi.

01:09So that's his favorite word.

01:12That's why I feel that there's so much alcohol and drug use, because they don't have a center.

01:17The spiritual piece of us is so small.

01:20That spark is so tiny.

01:23Why don't I use what's right in my backyard?

01:26That's what kept us alive.

01:27I mean, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our own medicine.

01:32She told me that I needed to pray.

01:35And so I used my beating and it was really, it was really comforting.

01:45When a way of life is shattered, it's often the women who become the healers.

01:52Meet the first Native American doctor and the women who follow in her footsteps.