Nancy Cornelius

Nancy Cornelius, later known as Nancy Cornelius Skenadore (13 June 1861 - 2 November 1908), was the first Native American woman in the United States to be educated as a nurse.

The reservation was located south of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

[1][2][4] She married Daniel Skenadore on Easter Sunday in 1901.

[5] After graduating from the Hartford Training School, she worked in Connecticut.

[6][4] Later, she returned to Wisconsin and began to work at the Oneida Mission Hospital.

A young woman with dark hair and brown skin, wearing a nurse's uniform, standing next to a small table with bottles on it
Nancy Cornelius, from a 1918 publication