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FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICAN ATHLETES

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

CALIE honors and remembers the greatest Native American Indian athletes of recorded history to provide important historical references for Native American students, teachers and the sports community for on-line research and positive role models to inspire young Native American Indians.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 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 famous athletes section — please let us know the athletes we are missing, and any additional pictures and information you may have.

SPORTS LEGENDS | SUPERSTARS
Jim Thorpe Sac & Fox 1887-1953	Billy Mills Oglala Lakota (Sioux) 1938-	Joe Hipp Blackfeet 1962-	John "Chief" Meyers Cahuilla 1880-1971
Lewis Tewanima Hopi 1888-1969	Ellison "Tarzan" Brown Narragansett 1914-1975
PROFESSIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ATHLETES
Sonny Sixkiller Cherokee 1951-	Virgil Zwicker Kumeyaay-Ipai 1982-	Kyle Lohse Nomlaski-Wintun 1978-	Rod Curl Wintu 1943-
Jackson Bussell Modoc Klamath 1978-2007	Phil Welmas Cahuilla 1891-1968	Peter Calac Valley View 1892-1960
AMATURE | SCHOOL | COLLEGIATE | OLYMPICS
Joseph Burton Lusieño	Mary Killman Potawatomi c. 1991-	Alvina Begay Navajo c. 1981-	Andrew Sockalexis Penobscot 1892-1919

FEATURED AMERICAN INDIAN ATHLETES

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

CHIEF 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" 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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WHO PRODUCED THIS Tribal Resource?

Ernie C. Salgado Jr.
Tribal: Luiseño
Reservation: Soboba Indian Reservation
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