It has been a great tragedy in this nation's sports history that American Indian athletes -- with the exception of its greatest athlete Jim Thorpe -- have not taken their talents from youth into college education and professional careers.
Perhaps that troubling note will be rewritten with tonight's winning of the college football Heisman Trophy by OU quarterback Sam Bradford, part Cherokee Indian. Like Barack Obama, part African-American, there is goodness and perhaps greatness in change.
While Bradford may have been late to embrace his heritage such as myself, he is nonetheless a new role model for young people who desperately need to see someone advance and prosper according to the greatness of their skills and the greatness of their people.
Boomer Sooner!
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