Whereas November is Native American Heritage Month, when Congress acknowledges the contributions of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians in the United States; Whereas Wa-Tho-Huk or Bright Path , known as James Francis Thorpe or Jim Thorpe of the Thunder Clan of the Sac and Fox Nation, was born May 22, 1887, on the Reservation of the Sac and Fox Nation in Prague, Oklahoma, and died March 28, 1953, in Lomita, California; Whereas Jim Thorpe attended the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania and established his amateur football record playing halfback, defender, punter, and place-kicker while a student, and was subsequently chosen as Walter Camp’s First Team All-American Half-Back in 1911 and 1912; Whereas prior to the 1912 Olympic Games, Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Amateur Athletic Union National Championship Trials in Boston, Massachusetts; Whereas Jim Thorpe represented the United States as an enrolled member of the Sac and Fox Nation, the largest of three federally recognized Tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox), in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden; Whereas at the 1912 Olympic Games, he won a Gold Medal in the pentathlon, became the first American athlete to win a Gold Medal in the decathlon, in which he set a world record, and became the only athlete in Olympic history to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon during the same year; Whereas at the time Jim Thorpe won two Gold Medals in the 1912 Olympic Games, Native Americans were not recognized as citizens of the United States until 1924 under the Indian Citizenship Act; Whereas Native Americans were not granted the right to vote in every State until 1957; Whereas Jim Thorpe was voted America’s Greatest All-Around Male Athlete and chosen as the greatest football player of the half-century in 1950 by an Associated Press poll of sportswriters; Whereas Jim Thorpe was named the Greatest American Football Player in history in a 1977 national poll conducted by Sport Magazine