TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The history between largely rural states and Native American communities is filled with broken promises and surrendered land.
In a small town in Oklahoma, a state university and the Cherokee Nation have launched the nation’s first tribally affiliated medical school by seeing what rural and tribal America have in common.
An unlikely story? Just ask Alex Cosby, a current student at the school.
“If you had told me 10 years ago there’d be a medical school with state-of-the-art equ...