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Marcella LeBeau (1919–2021), decorated WWII combat nurse & Lakota elder

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Marcella LeBeau was a nurse who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and went on to advocate for Native American health.LeBeau served as an Army nurse in Belgium, England, and France, including treating soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge.

She was later awarded a medal of honor by Belgium. When she returned to the U.S., she worked as a nurse on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota, serving for 31 years until her retirement as director of nursing at Indian Health Services.

She served on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council, where she worked to ban smoking from tribal chambers. The reservation became the first community in South Dakota to pass a clean air law.

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