James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to ...
two gold medals around Thorpe's neck for winning the Olympic pentathlon and
William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known as Tamakoce Te'Hila, is an Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the ...
Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota) had the most impact and influence in the modern era, winning the 10,000 meters in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, ...
Native American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics but was stripped of his gold medals for violating amateur
Olympics Flashback: Jim Thorpe won two Gold medals with shoes someone had thrown in the trash
But the stereotypes he faced as a Native American are sadly still part of
when the International Olympic Committee stripped Thorpe's gold medals because he ...
Thorpe's legacy: Native American's Olympic dream
Predominantly of American Indian (Sauk and Fox) descent, Thorpe attended