Carlos Montezuma was named "Wassaja" by his parents.
17 Facts About Carlos Montezuma
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Carlos Montezuma's father was a chief named Co-cu-ye-vah and his mother was named Thil-ge-ya.
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Gentile and Carlos Montezuma resided in Chicago and then New York for some years until the loss of all his belongings in a fire in 1877 forced Gentile back to his itinerant life and to Chicago.
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Carlos Montezuma graduated with honors from Urbana High School in 1879.
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Carlos Montezuma began his public activity in support of Native Americans' rights.
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Carlos Montezuma there received his doctorate of medicine from the Chicago Medical College, a branch of Northwestern University, in 1889 and obtained his license to practice that same year.
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Carlos Montezuma was not only the first Native American student at both the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, but the second Native American ever to earn a Medical Degree in an American University after Susan La Flesche Picotte.
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In 1889 Carlos Montezuma traveled to reservations and provided services to Native Americans at Fort Stevenson in Dakota Territory.
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In January 1893, Carlos Montezuma went to Colville Agency in the State of Washington, and finally, in July 1893 to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
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Carlos Montezuma had last visited Gentile in the summer of 1893 while traveling from the State of Washington to his new job at Carlisle.
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Carlos Montezuma gave financial aid to Gentile's widow and in an ironic twist of fate, he became for some time the custodian of Gentile's six-year-old son until Gentile's widow and the child moved to California by 1896.
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At the beginning of 1896 Dr Carlos Montezuma left Pratt to return to Chicago and start private medical practice.
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In 1904, Dr Carlos Montezuma founded the Indian Fellowship League, the first urban Indian organization in the US, in Chicago.
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Carlos Montezuma began publicly attacking the government for the conditions imposed upon Natives.
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Carlos Montezuma became an outspoken opponent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Dr Carlos Montezuma became very ill with tuberculosis in 1922 and decided to permanently return to the land of his people.
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Carlos Montezuma died on January 31,1923, and is buried at the Fort McDowell Indian cemetery.