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  1. 1920s
    Iñupiaq traditional healer becomes a midwife
    Della Keats, an Iñupiaq from Kotzebue, Alaska, is a traditional healer, locally called a doctor. Born ...
  2. 1919
    Native Hawaiian herbalists told to aid researchers
    The territorial legislature authorizes a Hawaiian Medicine Board to license Native Hawaiian herbalists, ...
  3. 1910
    Territorial hospital just for Alaska Natives opens
    In Juneau, the Territory of Alaska's Bureau of Education opens the first hospital specifically for Alaska ...
  4. 1905
    Native Hawaiian healing practices are outlawed
    While the Hawaiian monarchs swung back and forth between restricting Native healers, known as kahuna , ...
  5. 1902
    New hospital in Nome treats prospectors, Alaska Natives
    Catholic missionaries from Canada, the Sisters of Providence, establish the Holy Cross Hospital in Nome, ...
  6. 1899
    Henry Crow Dog II is born
    Henry Crow Dog II will become a traditional medicine man of the Lakota. Despite the individual land- ...
  7. 1898
    U.S. annexes Hawai‘i; seizes land; suppresses healers
    The U.S. annexes Hawai‘i and seizes royal and government lands. Launching aggressive assimilation policies, ...
  8. 1896
    Doctor consults medicine men to counter tuberculosis
    James R. Walker, the agency physician assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, finds ...
  9. 1889
    First American Indian woman graduates from medical school
    The Omaha healer Susan La Flesch (later Picotte) graduates from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. ...
  10. 1889
    Yavapai doctor advocates for Indian self-determination
    The Yavapai doctor Carlos Montezuma (who was named Wassaja, “gathering” or “beckoning,” at birth) graduates ...
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