Past & Present

Billy Mills (Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla): Respects the Earth In the past 60 years Billy Mills is the only American – the only man from the Western Hemisphere – to have won the 10,000-meter Olympic ra...

Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe (Wa-Tho-Huk): Bright Path In his time, Thorpe was a literal living legend. At one point was even considered "USA's greatest athlete and American football player of the first half of the...

STANDING BEAR

Standing Bear (Ma-chú-nu-zhe) was the leader of a band of about 82 Ponca people living near the banks of the Niobrara River. In 1854 the US passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was a transcontinenta...