Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill

Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (August 30, 1875 – March 18, 1952) was an American physician. Although referred to as a Native American woman, The Office of Tribal Justice of the U.S. Department of Justice states: "As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership. It is important to distinguish between the ethnological term 'Indian' and the political/legal term 'Indian.' The protections and services provided by the United States for tribal members flow not from an individual's status as an American Indian in an ethnological sense, but because the person is a member of a Tribe recognized by the United States and with which the United States has a special trust relationship." The St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, where Minoka's mother was from, The reservation supports members of the reservation. Their website states that: "In order to become a tribal member, your eligibility for enrollment will be determined upon completion of the application in accordance with the 25% Akwesasne Mohawk blood quantum requirement." |name="def" Minoka was not a citizen of any Native American tribe. was born August 30, 1875, in New Jersey. (There are other places where Minoka was said to be born, but her census record of 1900 shows she was born in New Jersey.) Dr. Allen, a bachelor,

Minoka, who was not a citizen of any Native American tribe, lived with her maternal Mohawk grandmother of an unknown name in Atlantic City, New Jersey and occasionally she was visited by Dr. Allen from Philadelphia. She learned that Quakers valued caring and kindness. Minoka was the second Native American woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, (There are more sources from within this article that state that she is the "second Native American woman in the United States to" obtain a medical degree or be a physician.) Feeling insecure, she shared the information about her father, her mother, and her birth with Charles Hill, which made them closer.

Legacy and honors 1947, she received the Indian Achievement Award from the Indian Fire Council of Chicago, for personal achievement and humanitarian service to her people. 2014, the Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill School opened in September. By 2016, the Minoka-Hill monument monument was erected in Oneida, Wisconsin in her honor. It was erected at the Oneida Health Center.

The historical figure, Charlie Hill, an Oneida comedian was the grandson of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill.