%0 Journal Article
%T Canada¡¯s first indigenous physician? The story of Dr. O (1841¨C1907)
%A Michelle A. Hamilton
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2017
%R 10.1503/cjs.009616
%X As a physician, temperance advocate, chairman of the Grand General Indian Council of Ontario, the Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters, and mistakenly known as a Mohawk Chief, Dr. Oronhyatekha was a well-known, larger-than-life figure in North America and internationally. Since then, his memory has faded in mainstream society. Recently, however, he has re-emerged as a person of historical significance, designated as such by Parks Canada. Now the subject of the first full-length biography, co-authors Michelle Hamilton and Keith Jamieson, have separated out the true stories of his life from apocryphal ones. Although he was much more than a doctor, what follows is the story of how Oronhyatekha, a Mohawk boy baptized Peter Martin at the Six Nations of the Grand River, tenaciously pursued his dream of becoming a physician
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5373735/