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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
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- The Washington Post
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- April 1, 2001
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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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