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ERIC Number: EJ405909
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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"Montezuma on the Missouri: A Centennial of Sorts."
Willard, William
WICAZO SA Review, v5 n2 p34-38 Fall 1989
Discusses the one-year tenure of Carlos Montezuma--first American Indian physician--at Fort Stevenson Federal Indian Boarding School following his graduation from medical school in 1889. Describes the school's unhealthy conditions, the forced enrollment of Indian children, and the political patronage system for recruiting BIA employees. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indians, Biographies, Boarding Schools, Health Conditions, Physicians
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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