Article: Interring Jim Thorpe: Family and City in Tug of War; Children Want to Move Famed Athlete's Remains to Indian Burial in Okla.; Jim Thorpe, Pa., Resists

Jim Thorpe's family battled for about 70 years before reclaiming his 1912 Olympic gold medals, stripped in a dispute over his amateur status.

Now, four of his surviving children are poised for what may be an even tougher fight: They want their father's remains returned to Oklahoma for a proper American Indian burial in a cemetery near his hometown of Prague. Officials of Jim Thorpe, Pa., the town that adopted the Olympic champion's name, erected a memorial in his honor and built a tourism industry around it, are promising a battle.

"We want Dad buried where he wanted to be buried," said his youngest son, Jack Thorpe, 63, a former Sac and Fox chief who is housing director for the Kickapoo ...

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