Wassaja began studying at Illinois Industrial University at about age 14 in 1880. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1884. He then returned to Chicago and attended the Chicago Medical College, which later became Northwestern University’s medical school. In 1889 he received a medical degree, becoming the second Native person in the United States to do so. (Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first.)
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