Justice
For Jim Thorpe

Profits from print go to "Justice for Jim Thorpe" Project.

Price $ 30.00 plus $3.50 shipping and handling. Total $33.50

Today’s sports writers are overlooking Thorpe’s accomplishments. The purpose of the project is to promote awareness of Jim Thorpe's sports achievements and to inspire America’s Youth - especially American Indian.

The twenty-seven and one-half by nineteen and one-half inch poster depicts Jim Thorpe in his Carlisle Indian School Uniform.

Jim Thorpe poster
Artist - Oren R. Lyons

Grace Thorpe will autograph the poster with her signature if requested.

Justice For Jim Thorpe
2213 West 8^th Street
Prague, Oklahoma 74864
Tel/Fax (405) 567-4297

Advocacy Committee Grace Thorpe , Director Daughter of Jim Thorpe Members
Joe Campbell Mdewakanton Sioux Environmental Activist Prairie Island, Minnesota Dr. Wilton S. Dillon Smithsonian Institute Lynn Draper Jim Thorpe Athletic Association Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Gayle Hatch International Weight Lifting Coach Baton Rouge, Louisiana Ellen Guerin North American Indigenous Games Warm Springs, Oregon Jack Kmetz Jim Thorpe Sports Hall of Fame Pennsylvania	Keith Kohler Historian Marion, Ohio Barbara Landis Carlisle Indian School Biographer Carlisle, Pennsylvania Oren Lyons Iroquois National Lacrosse Nedrow, New York Wilma Mankiller Former Principal Chief Cherokee Nation Stilwell, Oklahoma Jim Melick Basic Recovery Associates Reno, Nevada	Joel Platt Sports Immortals Museum Boca Raton, Florida Dr. Bob Riesing Sports Professor, Author Pembroke, North Carolina Kazuo Sayama Author Japan Chris Schenkel Hall of Fame Sportscaster Leesburg, Indiana Ellen Staurowsky Sports Professor, Writer Ithaca, New York Dr. David Hurst Thomas Author New York, New York Dr. Robert Whitman Author Marysville, Ohio
Jim Thorpe Family Members
Gail Thorpe, Daughter Yale, Oklahoma Bill Thorpe, Son Arlington, Texas	Jack Thorpe, Son Shawnee, Oklahoma	Dr. Mike Koehler, Grandson Scottsdale, Arizona Dagmar Thorpe, Granddaughter Prague, Oklahoma

About The Artist

OREN R. LYONS

JOAGQUISH0 (Bright Sun), Wolf Clan, Onondaga Nation

TITLE: Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs. Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy)

ARTIST STATEMENT:
"It is an honor for me to be a part of the great Jim Thorpe Honor Day. He is my hero of the 20th century. My great uncles Ike and Jessie Lyons were friends with Jim at the Carlyle Indian School. He would stop at Onondaga now and then. One day he visited our lacrosse practice in the early fifties and I had the honor to shake his hand. He was impressive and today his athletic achievements loom even more impressive. I firmly believe no one will ever match his Olympic record of winning both the Pentathlon and Decathlon in 1912, Sweden. He is truly the athlete of the century."

The art of Oren Lyons is represented in museums and collections across the country, including the Smithsonian Institution. He has a B.A. of Fine Arts from Syracuse University Class of '58. He pursued a professional career in New York City in the 60's in Advertising, Graphics, Illustration and was an Art and Planning Director for Norcrosse Greeting Cards. He continues to paint in between his duties as a Chief and Professor of American History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Chief Lyons was an athlete in his own right. He was All-American Lacrosse position of goalie 1957-58, and was a teammate of another famous athlete, Jim Brown. Together they contributed to the first Syracuse University undefeated lacrosse team in 1957.

Chief Lyons is in five Athletic Halls of Fame including the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He is the Chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team that won the Bronze Medal in the Under 19 Men's World Games in Adelaide, Australia 1999. His most satisfactory recognition and honor he says is the Iroquois Nationals winning the First Annual Jim Thorpe Award for Native American Athlete of the Year, 1999.

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