Nebraska Stories
Native American Leaders
S13 • E6 Mar 31, 2022
A Legend in Bronze - A visual essay on the new Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte sculpture. Against the Current - As a child on the Nebraska frontier, Susan La Flesche Pichotta witnessed the death of a tribal member because the agency doctor never showed up. The experience drove her to accomplish the seemingly impossible to become the first Native American doctor and build her own hospital on the Omaha reservation. Return of the Pawnees - Once exiled from Nebraska, the Pawnees are now regaining a presence in their homeland due to a remarkable act of reconciliation. In 2007 Roger and Linda Welsch did what few decedents of European immigrants have ever done in the 5oo year history of America. They returned their land on the Loup River near Dannebrog to its original owners, the Pawnees. The Chief Goes to Washington - On September 18, 2019, a new statue of Chief Standing Bear was unveiled in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. This historic event was set in motion two years earlier when the Nebraska Legislature passed a bill to replace William Jennings Bryan with Ponca Chief Standing Bear as one of two heroic figures representing the state.
