Cherokee student awarded for work in Indigenous health care

FAYETTESVILLE, Ark.—Claire Walker is a Cherokee college student who cares about her Native community so much that she is on her way to receiving well-earned awards.

Accordingly, she was recently announced as the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholar for her commitment to tribal healthcare, as well as demonstrated leadership connected to this issue on campus and in her community.

An honors student from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, she is majoring in biochemistry and biology at the University of Arkansas. In both her jobs as a medical assistant and a billing coordinator, Walker has been active in en...