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FAMOUS AMERICAN INDIAN SPORTS SUPERSTAR ATHLETES

FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICAN ATHLETES

CALIE honors and remembers the greatest Native American Indian athletes of recorded history to provide important historical references for Native American students, teachers and the sports community for on-line research and positive role models to inspire young Native American Indians.

To date, our list of famous American Indian tribal athletes include profiles, photographs, biographies and statistics of urban and enrolled tribal members of the Kumeyya-Iipay, Cahuilla, Luiseño, Blackfeet, Sac and Fox, Cherokee, Oglala Lakota Sioux, Modoc Klamath, Hopi, Nomlaski Wintun, Wintu, Potawatomi, Navajo, and Penobscot Indian nations of North America.

CALIE editors welcome your help in developing our Famous Athletes section — please let us know the athletes we are missing, and any additional pictures and information you may have.

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FEATURED SOCAL HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE:

FOOTBALL Pauma's Edward Hill, CIF Football
by Ernie Salgado
At six foot three and 285 pounds, 15-year-old Edward Hill a Junior at Valley Center High School in Escondido....

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To add your K-12 sports standout to our CALIE Native Americian Indian Sports STANDOUTS, please contact ERNIE SALGADO.

SPORTS LEGENDS | SUPERSTARS
THORPE
Jim Thorpe
Sac & Fox
1887-1953
BILLY
Billy Mills
Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
1938-
JOE
Joe Hipp
Blackfeet
1962-
JOE BURTON
John "Chief" Meyers
Cahuilla
1880-1971
LEWIS
Lewis Tewanima
Hopi
1888-1969
TARZAN
Ellison "Tarzan" Brown
Narragansett
1914-1975
JOE
Clarence "Taffy" Abel
Chippewa
1901-1964
PROFESSIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ATHLETES
SIXKILLER
Sonny Sixkiller
Cherokee
1951-
REZDOG
Virgil Zwicker
Kumeyaay-Ipai
1982-
JOE BURTON
Joseph Burton
Lusieño
1990-
LOHSE
Kyle Lohse
Nomlaski-Wintun
1978-
MICA
Mica Diaz
Luiseño
c. 1992
CURL
Rod Curl
Wintu
1943-
JACKSON
Jackson Bussell
Modoc Klamath
1978-2007
PETE CALAC
Phil Welmas
Cahuilla
1891-1968
PETE CALAC
Peter Calac
Rincon
1892-1960
BRAY
Tyler Bray
Potawatomi
1991-
AMATURE | COLLEGIATE | OLYMPICS
MARY
Mary Killman
Potawatomi
c. 1991-
ALVINA
Alvina Begay
Navajo
c. 1981-
ANDREW
Andrew Sockalexis
Penobscot
1892-1919
AVELLAKA
Terae Briggs
Crow
1997-
MARY
Malia Kipp
Blackfeet Nation
c. 19##
SCHOOL K-12 Standouts
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AVELLAKA
Avellaka Arviso
Lusieno
c. 2000-
Espinoza
Silent Rain Espinoza
Kumeyaay
c. 2000-
KEYERA
Keyera Flores
c. 2008-
HILL
Edward Hill
Luiseno
c. 2003-
AVELLAKA
Justin Jose
Cahuilla
c. 2005-
AVELLAKA
Madison Triplett
KAW Nation
2006-
AMERICAN INDIAN SPORTS REPORTERS
VASQUEZ
Keith Vasquez
Kumeyaay-Ipai
c. 1982

VIDEOS SPORTS MOVIES:

Watch Joseph Burton (Soboba band) video who shattered Oregon State University Beavers' college basketball records with over 1,000 points scored, 700 rebounds, and 300 assists.

NEWS ARTICLES about

CROOKED ARROWS MOVIES ABOUT AMERICAN INDIAN SPORTS

"This game has been in our blood for a thousand years...".

WATCH official Crooked Arrows theatrical movie trailer—visit: crookedarrows.com website.

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Tyler Hill, in "Crooked Arrows."

A reluctant new coach faces the challenge of leading a team of unhappy youths to a championship. On the way, setbacks are encountered and eventually overcome, and everyone, from the coach to the star to the last guy on the bench, learns something. Wouldn’t it be great if “Crooked Arrows,” a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?

Not going to happen. Joe Logan (Brandon Routh), the son of the chief of the fictional Sunaquat tribe and onetime lacrosse star, manages the casino on the tribe’s land; at his boss’s insistence, Joe wins the tribal council’s approval for an expansion, over the objections of his father, Ben (Gil Birmingham).

First, though, the council says Joe must go on a spiritual quest, which Ben decides means coaching the Sunaquat’s disorganized high school squad. “Restore pride to our people and their game,” Ben tells Joe. It’s called “the medicine game” for a reason, he adds. “Let it heal you.”

Initially, the team keeps losing. But when Joe introduces Crooked Arrow (Dennis Ambriz), his lacrosse guru and general wise man, the team starts to immerse itself in lacrosse’s meaning to the tribe’s culture. Soon on a winning path, it is headed for the big game against the Coventry School, where Joe once played.

Directed by Steve Rash, “Crooked Arrows” gets points for its glimpses of Native American culture and history — the film’s backers include the Onondaga Nation.

Submitted by Roy Cook

Do you have children who are interested in participating in organized Southern California tribal sports programs?

Go to: InterTribal Sports for more info.

FEATURED AMERICAN INDIAN ATHLETES

CHIEF
JIM THORPE (Sac & Fox)
1987-1953,
"The Greatest Athlete of All Time"...

CHIEFCHIEF MEYERS (Cahuilla, Riverside, CA), 1880-1971, MLB teams played for: New York Giants, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Robins. Career batting average .291, played in four World Series (1911, 1912, 1913, 1916)....

JOE THE BOSS HIPPJOE "THE BOSS" HIPP (Blackfeet) World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Heavyweight Champion (1999) forms the All Nations Foundation and sets out on a mission to tutor and mentor tribal youth...

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Ernie C. Salgado Jr.
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