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Four Lakota Sioux Catholic Sisters of the Congregation of American Sisters from Fort Pierre, South Dakota, served as contract nurses with the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Mother Bridget (Anna Pleets), Mother Joseph (Josephine…

Charlotte (Anderson) Monture, of the Six Nations Grand River Reserve in Canada, served as one of the few American Indian Army nurses during World War I. Wanting to seek new opportunities, Monture attended the New Rochelle School of Nursing in New…