Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture facts for kids

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture (1890–1996), known simply as Edith Monture, was a Mohawk WWI veteran, known as the first Indigenous-Canadian woman to become a registered nurse, as well as to gain the right to vote in a Canadian federal election. Moreover, she was the first Indigenous woman from Canada to serve in the United States military.

Born in Canada, Monture had to be trained as a nurse in the United States because all of the Canadian nursing schools refused her due to her race. She worked as an elementary school nurse, but left that job in 1917 to join the Army Nurse Corps. She served in France at a military hospital. She was one of fourteen Native-Canadian women who served as members of the Army Nurse Corps during World War I, and was one of only two who served overseas (the other being Cora E. Sinnard, a member of the Oneida tribe who also served in France).