110 years later, new steps taken to fully restore Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals

Tribal citizen made sports history, today's scholars try to win back what was rightfully his.

Jim Thorpe. (Getty Images)

On this, the anniversary of the day Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon at the summer Olympics in Sweden back in 1912, Indigenous Wire shares some new research about a 40-years-long effort to have his gold medals completely restored.

Courtesy of the Doug Williams Center, scholars Florence Ridlon and Robert Wheeler recently researched …