rature. It may be well to
mention some of our best-known professional men and women. The doctors
seem to have been the first to enter the general field in competition
with their white colleagues: at first, to be sure, as "Indian herb
doctors," or quacks of one sort or another, but later as competent
graduated physicians. The Government has utilized several in the Indian
service, and others have established themselves in private practice.

SOME NOTED INDIANS OF TO-DAY

Perhaps the foremost of these is Dr. Carlos Montezuma of Chicago, a
full-blooded Apache, who was purchased for a few steers while in
captivity to the Pimas, who were enemies of his people. He was brought
to Chicago by the man who ransomed him, a reporter and photographer, and
when his benefactor died, the boy became the protege of the Chicago
Press Club. A large portrait of him adorns the parlor of the club,
showing him as the naked Indian captive of about four years old.

He went to the public school, then to Champaign University, Illinois,
and from there to the Northwestern University, where he was graduated
from the medical department. All this time, although receiving some aid
from various sources, he largely supported himself. After graduation Dr.
Montezuma was sent by the Government as physician to an Indian agency in
Montana, and later transferred to the Carlisle school. In a few years he
returned to Chicago and opened an office. He has been a prominent
physician there for a number of years, and was recently married to a
lady of German descent. He stands uncompromisingly for the total
abolition of the reservation system and of the Indian Bureau, holding
that the red man must be allowed to work out his own salvation.

One of the earliest practitioners of our race was Dr. Susan La Flesche
Picotte of the Omaha tribe. Having prepared at Hampton Institute and
elsewhere, she entered the Philadelphia Medical College for Women. When
she had finished, she returned to her tribe, and was for some time in
the Government service. She has since taken up private practice and also
had charge of a mission hospital. Dr. Picotte is a sister of Bright Eyes
(Susette La Flesche) and also of Francis La Flesche of Washington, D. C.
There is another Indian doctor, not of full blood, who is president of
the City Club of Chicago and active in civic reform. In several Middle
Western cities there are successful doctors and dentists of my race.

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