Medicine woman / producer, director, writer, Christine M. Lesiak ; producer, researcher, director, Princella P. RedCorn ; produced by NET Television ; a presentation of Vision Maker Media ; with major funding provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Medicine Woman, interweaves the lives of Native American women healers of today with the story of America’s first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). The one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women, features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (Organization) (Production company)
Vision Maker Media (Presenter, Film distributor)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Lesiak, Christine (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter)
RedCorn, Princella Parker (Film director, Film producer, Researcher)
Harjo, Joy (Narrator)
Bedard, Irene, 1967- (Voice actor)
Aylward, Pat (Editor of moving image work)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English; closed-captioned in English.
Published: [Nebraska] : NET, Nebraska PBS Station, [2016]
Subjects:
Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, > 1865-1915.
Omaha women > Biography.
Indigenous women physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Women physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Physicians > Nebraska > Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
What does it take to heal a people?
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Medicine Woman, interweaves the lives of Native American women healers of today with the story of America’s first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). The one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women, features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting with Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.
Note:"Meet the first Native American doctor and the women who follow in her footsteps."--Disc label & Container.
Originally produced as an episode of the television series.
Call Number:R154.P53 M43 2016 VideoDVD
Credits:Edited by Pat Aylward.
System Details:DVD; NTSC, Region 1.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator, Joy Harjo; voice of Susan Picotte, Irene Bedard.