History

[JoePa]

Not too far from where I live is the town of Jim Thorpe - Jim was a Native American who was sent from a reservation in Oklahoma to a school here in Pa. when he was a kid - he was a native Indian who excelled in sports holding many records at the time - when he died the town buried his body and named the town after him - there is a monument where his body is - Oklahoma keeps trying to get the body through the courts - the only way a group of people will flourish is if they assimilate into the society that they live in - trying to live in the 18th century while living in the 21st won't work - it's ok to keep traditions but life style got to change