The remains of Olympic athlete and football legend Jim Thorpe should stay in the Pennsylvania town that bears his name, the Third Circuit has ruled, holding it would be an “absurd result” to uphold a district court judge’s determination to move them to an Indian reservation in Oklahoma.
The sons of the famed athlete, whose burial in northeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1950s created the town of Jim Thorpe, Pa., had argued his burial there was in violation of the 1990 federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. That law requires museums and federal agencies possessing Native American human remains to return those remains at the request of a known lineal descendant.
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