How Sports Icon Jim Thorpe Emerged from the Indian Boarding School System

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American multi-sport Jim Thorpe competing for Carlisle Indian Industrial School at the U.S. Olympic trials in Celtic Park, New York, May 18, 1912.Jim Thorpe

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The life of legendary Native American sports hero Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of all-time.

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