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Push to save boarding school of first Native American to get Western medical degree

NPR | By Stan Ingold
Published April 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM CDT

A man in Kentucky wants to preserve the remnants of the boarding school where the first native American who got a Western medical degree once lived.

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Stan Ingold