New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-27
INDIAN TRAINED NURSES.
PHYSICIANS SPEAK HOPEFULLY OF
THEIR FUTURE.
RED Girl. GRADUATES OF CARLISLE SCHOOL
HAVE NOT ONLY SKILL AND GRACE. But

RED Girl. GRADUATES OF CARLISLE SCHOOL
HAVE NOT ONLY SKILL AND GRACE. But
GREAT PHYSICAL ENDURANCE
IT never fee the least bit uneasy when leave
my case In hands OF Of these Indian nurses
was tho tribute just paid by leading physician OF
Philadelphia to the young Indian women VINO nave
entered the field Of trained nursing.
While the public a general rule, would haro'y
stop to consider that the profession OF trained nure
ing requiring all the delicate attributes OF woman
hood would be adapted TO the daughters OF "ho
and savage ancestry the fact remains that oneida,
Ottawa Wvandotte and even Sioux girls. educated
and trained are showing most remarkable aptitude
for the profession
CAPTAIN r. II. Pratt the superintendent Of the
Indian Industrial School. at Carlisle fehh' ue-
Cares indeed that the time is not far distant when
Indian girls will be regarded by the medical profes
sion AT large as the most successful trained nurses
In the country. Their first introduction ihtP '"o
hospital training schools. after they had passeo
through n careful course Of instruction at oarISie'
is due to the efforts of Captain Pratt who believes
the Indians have a future. and IS firmly or the oPi-
ION that az a class they quite capable OF enter
ing the occupations Of the white man or woman
and that their dwelling should no longer De IN me
woods or on the prairie exclusively, Dut aso III INC
hives OF industry of the whites, the cities 'he
offices the mills the hospitals and on the Farms.
All the training at the Carlisle school is carried
great success. The first instruction when inc
Indian girls who have since graduated as trained
nurses received In their profession was IN inc
Indian School Hospital, where, during this prem-
mary training they showed such marked ability
that they sent to complete their training IN
the hospitals of Philadelphia.
At present Miss Nancy Seneca. young full-
hooded Indian maiden Is studying at the Medico-
Chirurgical Hospital. IN that city.
Miss Kate Grndrod. a full-glooded Wyan-
dotte Indian who was educated at Carlisle. is one
OF the most successful professional nurses. Dur
ing the epidemic at Carlisle in 1880 and 1891, she
volunteered her services rs nurse, ana SUCCEEDED
so well that, acting upon the advice OF PHYSICIANS
she entered the WOmanS Hospital at Philadelphia
Her services are eagerly sought by many OF the
Including Miss Nancy Seneca, who will soon
complete her course. eight Indian girls. who first
few years become trained nurses. and are now
proAtably employed in independent practice.
The first Indian woman IN the word 70 compete
a course I'm trained nursing Miss Nancy Cor
nelus. oneida. She arrived at the tarnsie
school from the reservation In 1880 and entered the
second grade Being Of delicate constitution, she
was Obliged pass much OF her time in the schoo
hospita. for treatment. and. desiring some occupa-
tOu she soon became competent assistant to the
In charge. In October. ISIS, Miss Cornelius LETT
Carlisle and went 70 the traininR-school for nurses
at Hartford. Conn. where she graduated two years
later. Since then she mas iived in Hartford
Commenting Indian women as trained nurses
them I'm his practice. said: Indian girls seem TO
possess every requisite make ideal trained
nurse. They remarkably intelligent. and have
nerve and great courage they never become Hurried
most trying and critical moments. They also as
a ruio possess considerable physical strength and
great endurance. withal they are Kind and atten-
tive. and follow out tho Doctors directions to tho
.cfter."