Jim Thorpe was an elite athlete of the 20th century and was considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, not only did he overcome racism and discrimination as a Native American, he also achieved lots of accomplishments throughout his athletic and acting career.
Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma), United States. He attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School. (Adam Augustyn 1). Jim Thorpe won the first gold medal as a Native American in both pentathlon and decathlon at the Stockholm 1912 Olympic Games. He won four out of the five pentathlon events at the Olympics to start his career, but finished third in the javelin. He also played professionally in football and baseball. From
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Jim Thorpe's family history is rooted to Native Americans and their family was affected deeply in the Manifest Destiny and Kansas-Nebraska Act. These events forced Thorpe's family to give up their land. This led to Thorpe's family settling in America, and Thorpe was a sixth member of the Sioux Nation which is a confederacy of many different tribes. Both of Thorpe's parents were Catholic and a mixed race couple. His father, Hiram Thorpe, was Irish and Sac and Fox Indian descent. His mother, Charlotte Vieux, had been a relative of Chief Louis Vieux, who had a French father and a Potawatomi mother. The Sac and Fox nation is a confederacy of two tribes, the Sauk and the Mesquakie, whose traditional homelands were in eastern Michigan and northern Ohio. There are two tribes which make up the Sac and Fox nation. They had generally moved to southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, which killed a lot of their people, by the late 18th century. A traveler called their society of Saukenuk, located at the meeting point of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. to have a meeting to say that we need to start growing crops before the cold Or else we are going to die. In 1766 their land was covered in rich crops covering hundreds of acres, and the population was pegged at