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Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Indian Territory (what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma). As a youth, he attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time All-American for the school's football team under coach Pop Warner.
Jim Thorpe (born May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory [now in Oklahoma], U.S.—died March 28, 1953, Lomita, California) was one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history who in 1950 was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the ...
Located in southeastern Lincoln County, Prague is situated at the junction of U.S. Highways 62 and 377 on land that was formerly part of the Sac and Fox Reservation, opened by a land run on September 22, 1891. Prague was settled primarily by Czechs.
Does Native America stretch far back in time around Prague? Truth is, Oklahoma has a history as rich as any other U.S. state.
Prague (/ ˈpreɪɡ / PRAYG[ 5 ]) is a city in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,356 at the 2020 census, an 1.76 percent decrease from the figure of 2,388 in 2010. [ 6 ] Czech immigrants founded the city, and named it after the capital of the present-day Czech Republic.
Sep 4, 2024 · Indian Territory, originally “all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory of Arkansas.”. Never an organized territory, it was soon restricted to the present state of Oklahoma, excepting the panhandle and Greer.
Fifteen years before The Dawes Act became law on January 8, 1887, the U.S. Congress was having second thoughts about Indians being sovereign nations in “Indian Territory”. Indian Territory was the land promised at the end of the “Trail of Tears”. Today, we know it as the State of Oklahoma.
