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Article: Jim Thorpe's remains may be given Native burial.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Jim Thorpe's family would have the circle closed where he was born and grew up: in the blackjack woods, between the Moccasin Highway and Oklahoma's North Canadian River.
Meanwhile, on Pennsylvania Route 903, just outside an old coal-mining town in the Lehigh Valley, a 20-ton, polished, minivan-sized chunk of brown granite graces a small, hillside park. Inscribed on the rock face is the quotation: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."
The king of Sweden addressed those words to the Native American athlete, who is entombed in the massive memorial. Thorpe was the hero of the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, winning the pentathlon and decathlon ...
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Article: Jim Thorpe remembered as one of a kind athlete.
Windspeaker;
March 1, 2000 ;
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... ... parts in order to support his family, Jim Thorpe's daughter Grace says. But mainly ... States Olympic Committee wants to ensure Jim Thorpe's name is not forgotten either, although ... influential people. On Feb. 17, the Jim Thorpe Sports Association in Oklahoma City honored ...
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