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Friday, November 21, 2003

Oneida actress Carol O. Smart, has spent 10 years developing and performing a play about her grandmother, Rosa Minoka-Hill, one of the first Native woman doctors.

Minoka-Hill was a Mohawk woman who was born in the late 1800s. She graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia in 1899. She married an Oneida man from Wisconsin and moved to the reservation there.

Smart spent a lot of time at her grandmother's house. Her one-woman play, "Honor Song," is based on the recollections of Minoka-Hill.

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Actress celebrates her grandmother's medical accomplishments, American Indian heritage (The Racine Journal Times 11/21)

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