| Show 4 t no g 1 1 ewt kp I 1 1 1 i A 4 s a V r v W oi o i A I 1 y y www 4 INDIAN 5 WOMEN a AS A L S NURSES A I 1 they t f nii 7 acot t only but 1 d iea Z ri WA baiz I never teel th ahe least bit I 1 uneasy I 1 hen I 1 aej leave bvm A W cue in I 1 the hands k or ii 0 one of these indian women was the tribute just paid by bya a leadin leading 9 physician ot philadelphia to the young toting indian women who have entered the field beld of trained nursing says the new york tribune while the public fis as a general rule would hardly stop to consider that the profession of trained nursing requiring all the dellease del leate lat tributes oi of womanhood would be adapted to the daughters daughter sef of wild and savage ancestry an bestry the tact remains remaina that oneida ottawa wyandotte and even eten sioux girls educated and trained are showing most remarkable aptitude tor for the profession capt H M B R pratt the superintendent of the indian industrial school at carlisle pa declares indeed that the la Is not far distant when indian girls will be regarded ded by the medical leal profession Drof ewton at large as the most successful trained nurses in the country their first introduction into the hospital training schools after they had bad passed through a careful course of instruction st ruction at carlisle Is due to the efforts of capt pratt who believes the indians have a future and is firmly of the opinion that as a class they are quite qu ate capable of entering the occupations of the white man or woman that their dwellings should no longer be in the woods or on the prairie exclusively but also in the hives of industry of the whites the cities the offices the mills the hospitals and on the farms all the training at the carlisle school Is clied carried on with such in an ultimate object in view and with great success the first instruction which the indian girls who have been graduated as trained nurses received in their profession was in the indian school hospital where during this preliminary training they showed such marked ability that they were sent to complete their training in the hospitals of philadelphia at present miss nancy seneca a young full blooded indian maiden ts is studying at the medico hospital in that city miss kate grindrod a fuu full blooded wyandotte indian who was educated at carlisle la is one of the most successful professional nurses during the at carlisle in 1890 and 1891 she volunteered her services as sl a nurse and succeeded so well that acting upon the advice of physicians she entered the womans comans hospital at philadelphia her services are eagerly sought by many of the leading families of that city including miss nancy seneca who will soon complete her course eight indian girls who first graduated at carlisle school have during the last few years become trained nurses and are now probably employed in independent practice the first in than dian woman in the world to complete a course in trained nursing was miss nancy cornelius an oneida she arrived at the carlisle school from the reservation in 1895 and entered the second grade being of a delicate constitution ution she was obliged to pass much of her time in the school hospital tor for treatment and desiring some occupation she soon became a competent assistant to the nurse in charge in october 1888 miss cornelius left carlisle and went to the training school for nurses at hartford conn where she graduated two years later since then she e has lived in hartford commenting on indian women as trained nurses a physician who had had bad much experience with them in his practice said indian girls seem to possess every requisite to make an ideal idea twined nurse they are remarkably intelligent and have nerve and great courage they never become flurried or excited but keep their heads beads perfectly at the most trying and critical moments they also as a ruP rule possess considerable physical strength and great endurance withal they are kind and attentive following duj out the doctors directions to the letter |
