; Whereas Jim Thorpe was named the Greatest American Football Player in history in a 1977 national poll conducted by Sport Magazine; Whereas because of his outstanding athletic achievements, Jim Thorpe was the first Native American inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the Professional Football Hall of Fame, the Helms Professional Football Hall of Fame, the National Native American Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame; Whereas the Amateur Athletic Union of 1973 restored the amateur status of Jim Thorpe for the years 1909 through 1912; Whereas the International Olympic Committee returned duplicates of Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Gold Medals to his family in 1982, but did not list him as the sole Gold Medal winner for his achievements during the 1912 Olympic Games; and Whereas the International Olympic Committee’s failure to update their records disregards the unprecedented achievements of one of the best athletes in American history, the only athlete in Olympic history to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon during the same year; the first Native American athlete to win Olympic Gold Medals for the United States, and the contributions of the Sac and Fox Nation in American history: Now, therefore, be it