Jim Thorpe Helped Create a Pro Football Team to…Sell Dogs?

The Los Angeles Times has a very interesting story today by Brian Cronin, who reported on the story of the Oorang Indian Football team. Founded in 1922, the team was comprised entirely of American Indians, led by none other than super athlete Jim Thorpe, and played in the National Football League in 1922-23.

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5/20/2013

article Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder

(Pennsylvania) -- It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather...

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5/19/2013

article What's in a name? A lot.

(Pennsylvania) -- Dark clouds — both the real and the metaphorical varieties — cast a pall Saturday over Jim Thorpe's annual birthday celebration of the...

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5/18/2013

article Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder

(Pennsylvania) -- It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather...

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5/10/2013

article Council will challenge legal decision that could affect Jim Thorpe remains

(Pennsylvania) -- A legal decision involving the remains of Jim Thorpe will be challenged by the Carbon County borough that is home to the famed athlete's grave and...

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article Jim Thorpe Borough to appeal judge’s ‘body’ ruling

(Pennsylvania) -- Jim Thorpe Borough Council has voted to appeal a federal judge’s order to relinquish the famed athlete’s remains so they can be reinterred...

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article Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania to appeal ruling on namesake athlete

(Pennsylvania) -- The small Pennsylvania hamlet named for early 20th century sports hero Jim Thorpe has decided to appeal a recent federal court ruling that could clear...

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article Sac and Fox: turning over Thorpe won't be costly

(Pennsylvania) -- The Sac and Fox Nation says it's not surprised by the decision by the Jim Thorpe Borough Council in eastern Pennsylvania to appeal a federal judge...

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5/4/2013

article Editorial: Oklahoma's greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe, coming home

(Oklahoma) -- After 60 years, Oklahoma's greatest athlete could be coming home. Jim Thorpe, once called the greatest athlete in the world by the king of Sweden and...

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5/2/2013

article Jim Thorpe Residents Discuss Judge’s Ruling

(Pennsylvania) -- Folks in the borough of Jim Thorpe are dealing with a setback in a federal lawsuit over the remains of the borough`s namesake. Last month, a judge...

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article Residents of Jim Thorpe mull options from lawsuit

(Pennsylvania) -- Residents of Jim Thorpe are weighing their options in the aftermath of a judge's ruling that could pave the way for the remains of the town's...

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5/1/2013

article NEW YORK TIMES: Jim Thorpe’s Place in America

(New York) -- A bittersweet restlessness has long been tied to the legend of Jim Thorpe, the Olympic champion and American Indian whose gold medal feats mesmerized the...

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4/29/2013

article Locals, tourists react to court ruling on Jim Thorpe's remains

(Pennsylvania) -- Spring flowers and trees bloomed in the bustling Carbon County borough of Jim Thorpe Sunday afternoon.

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4/25/2013

article LETTER: In this case, there should be no appeal

(Pennsylvania) -- Jim Thorpe was a unique athlete on a global scale. At 1912 in Stockholm he became the only Olympian ever to win gold medals in the pentathlon and...

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4/20/2013

article Jim Thorpe’s Remains Can Be Moved To Native Land, Court Rules

(Pennsylvania) -- Jim Thorpe’s remains can be removed from a Pennsylvania mausoleum in the town of Jim Thorpe and buried on American Indian land in Oklahoma, in...

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4/19/2013

article Jim Thorpe's remains could return to Oklahoma after court ruling

(Pennsylvania) -- The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a critical ruling Friday in federal court that could clear the way for his remains to be...

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article Judge rules Jim Thorpe’s body should be returned to Oklahoma

(Pennsylvania) -- A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday that proceedings should begin to return the body of Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe to Oklahoma, a major step...

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3/29/2013

article Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?

(USA) -- It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always...

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3/28/2013

article Honoring Jim Thorpe, the World's Greatest Athlete, on the 60th Anniversary of His Death

(USA) -- Sixty years ago today, March 28, 1953, Jim Thorpe, Sac & Fox, died of a heart attack in California at the age of 64. Wa-tho-huck, the Indian name his mother...

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8/16/2012

article Jim Thorpe: Oral history project in 1960s becomes quest to right wrong

(Washington D.C.) -- The year was 1967, and 23-year-old Syracuse University student Bob Wheeler had been hitchhiking across the country, conducting hundreds of...

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8/13/2012

article My Life: Jim Thorpe's gold medals inspired me

(South Dakota) -- Jim Thorpe was my first hero. Watching the summer Olympics always take me back to a memory of growing up on the reservation in northern Minnesota.

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7/31/2012

article Federal court fight continues over America’s first great Olympian

(Oklahoma) -- It was 100 years ago this month that Jim Thorpe put America on the world’s sports map and made the Olympics a global phenomenon. But the fight over...

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6/22/2012

article Jim Thorpe - the Native all-American athlete, sportsman and actor

(USA) -- DEFINING MOMENTS: THE LIFE experience of Jim Thorpe looms large over the first half of the American 20th century. Had his athletic exploits been confined to the...

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5/23/2012

article Thorpe's legacy: Native American's Olympic dream

(Oklahoma) -- A century after her childhood inspiration Jim Thorpe won two gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics, synchronized swimmer Mary Killman will be competing in...

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5/5/2012

article Sherrington: Family won’t rest until Jim Thorpe does

(Texas) -- Thirty years ago, before Rob Wheeler was born, his parents led efforts to restore the Olympic medals of the 20th Century’s greatest athlete.