Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Native American physician
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About Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill
- Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876–1952) was a Native American physician of Mohawk descent.
- Minnetoga, was her birth given last name according to an early record of her birth.
- Although, throughout her life, her name was changed three times; once at her birth, once when the Allen family forcefully adopted her, and a final time when she was given an Oneida name after working in the community for many years.
- Her favorite name to go by, was her third name, because it represented a high amount of honor that she had earned while treating the people, both white and non-white in Oneida.
- After her mother died, she was adopted by Joshua Allen, a Quaker in Philadelphia.
- She later graduated from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, becoming the second Native American female doctor in the United States, after Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha).
- Her life is remarkable because of the time period she was born into.
- She was born just after the battle of Little Big Horn, and died while relocation of Native Americans was still happening.
- She lived in a time of discrimination against women, and people of color, especially in the medical field. She married an Oneida man, Charles Hill, in 1905 and returned with him to his reservation in Wisconsin.
- For decades she operated a "kitchen clinic" at her house, providing care for Oneida on the reservation.
- She gained her state medical license in Wisconsin in 1934 and, in her later years, was honored for her contributions to rural medical care.
- In 1946, a heart attack prevented her from making house calls, however the kitchen-clinic remained open.
- In 1947 she was adopted by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the only person so honored in the 20th century.
- They gave her the name Yo-da-gent, meaning “she who saves” or “she who carries help”.
- Minoka-Hill lived through many hardships and yet continued her practice.
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