March 1915, she was suffering greatly and died of bone cancer on September 18, 1915. The next day, services by both the Presbyterian Church as well as the Amethyst Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star were performed. She is buried in Bancroft Cemetery, Bancroft, Nebraska near her husband, father, mother, sisters and half-brother. Picotte's sons went on to live full lives. Caryl Picotte made a career in the United States Army and served in World War II, eventually settling in El Cajon, California. Pierre Picotte lived in Walthill, Nebraska, for most of his life and raised a family of three children. In her career, Picotte served over 1,300 patients in a 450 square mile area. Tributes The reservation hospital in Walthill, Nebraska, now a community center, is named after Picotte and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. The hospital has also been named as one of the 11 most endangered places of 2018 by the National Trust. Work is underway to raise funds for its restoration. An elementary school in western Omaha Nebraska is named after Picotte. On June 17, 2017, the 152nd anniversary of her birth, Google released a Google Doodle honoring Picotte. In 2018, a bust of Picotte was dedicated at the Martin Luther King Jr. Transportation Center in Sioux City. In 2019, a statue of La Flesche was dedicated as part of Hampton University's Legacy Park. On October 11, 2021, Nebraska's first officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a bronze sculpture of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was unveiled by her descendants on Lincoln’s Centennial Mall. Benjamin Victor (sculptor) created the Picotte bronze. He is the same artist who created the Chief Standing Bear sculpture that now sits on Centennial Mall, and another version of it stands in Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. Citations Bibliography Further reading External links 1865 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American physicians 20th-century American physicians 19th-century American women physicians 20th-century American women physicians 19th-century Native Americans 20th-century Native Americans Drexel University alumni Hampton University alumni La Flesche family Native American physicians Omaha (Native American) people People from Thurston County, Nebraska Physicians from Nebraska Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania alumni 19th-century Native American women 20th-century Native American women