Brianna Theobald

Brianna Theobald

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Brianna Theobald is an assistant professor of history and an affiliate faculty in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester. The University of North Carolina Press published her first book, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century, in 2019.

Beyond Florence

Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and Histories of Native American Nursing

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I first encountered Susie Yellowtail (Crow) in a July 1934 letter in which a physician on her reservation condemned her for making “selfish” requests on health workers’ time and resources.1 The physician was angry that Yellowtail refused to accept hospital services for the birth of her child, and he made it clear that the Crow… Read more →