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William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets because he was a virtual unknown ...
James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk, May 22 or 28, [2] 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Louis Tewanima (1888 – January 18, 1969), also known as Tsökahovi Tewanima and Lewis Tewanima, [1] was an American two-time Olympic distance runner and silver medalist in the 10,000 meter run in 1912. [2] He was a Hopi Indian and ran for the Carlisle Indian School where he was a teammate of Jim Thorpe.
In the previous 16 years, only one American had medaled in an Olympic event longer than 800 meters, but after living at altitude in Mammoth and training down the hill in Bishop, Meb Keflezighi ...
Frank Pierce, first Native American to represent the United States at the Olympics in 1904; Ellison "Tarzan" Brown, Narragansett U.S. Olympian/marathon runner; Wilson Charles, competed in the decathlon at the 1932 Olympics.
St. Francis native Dakotah Lindwurm became the first Minnesotan to make the U.S. team for this summer's Paris Olympics, finishing third in the women's marathon Saturday at the Olympic trials in ...
Here's more on Emily Sisson, a Milwaukee native and North American marathon record-holder who will be running in the 2024 Paris Olympics:
Ellison Myers Brown (September 22, 1913 – August 23, 1975), [1] widely known as Tarzan Brown, a direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island (also known as Deerfoot amongst his people), was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51) and 1936 U.S. Olympian.