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Long before Paul Wenell Jr. ever picked up a mic and became the Hip-Hop MC known today as Tall Paul, he was the Anishinaabe and Oneida boy who longed to see someone on his television screen who looked like him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt this point in time, the representation I had seen of natives on TV was primarily westerns.  You know, natives getting killed by the cowboys,\u201d Tall Paul said of growing up in the 90s. \u201cSubconsciously, that does something to an impressionable youth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it did for Tall Paul, who was born and raised in South Minneapolis, Minnesota, was make him ask questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were natives really the inferior and incompetent caricatures he had seen on the silver screen? Where were the natives in the sports leagues that he loved so much? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tall Paul found the answers to those questions in Jim Thorpe, a name that would illuminate the path that would forever change Tall Paul\u2019s life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt kind of lit a fire in me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Native Baby Born the Greatest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Indian Territory that would eventually become the occupied state of Oklahoma, Jim Thorpe and his twin brother Charlie were born in 1887 in a one-room cabin. His parents welcomed him into the world as \u201cWa-Tho-Huk,\u201d which in English translates to \u201cpath lit by great flash of lightning.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of Sac and Fox and Potawatomi ancestry, Thorpe \u2014 a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a Pro Football and College Football Hall of Famer who also played professional baseball and basketball \u2014 is undisputedly one of the greatest athletes of all time, but his name and athletic achievements are oftentimes overlooked or forgotten when discussing sporting greats. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Jim Thorpe, circa 1910-1912. Courtesy: Harris & Ewing\/Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tall Paul, in his scholarly and musical genius way, is looking to change that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Nov. 17, Tall Paul released \u201cThe Story of Jim Thorpe<\/a>,\u201d a 10-track semi-biographical album dedicated to the life and legacy of the Sac and Fox and Potawatomi legend. But the album does more than just musically chronicle Thorpe\u2019s triumphant and tragic life. With each passing track, Tall Paul lyrically schools us and lays bare this country\u2019s foundational and savage legacy of conquest and colonization. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Rapper Tall Paul stands next to a portrait of Jim Thorpe. Courtesy photo <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

With flows, bars and hooks that seem to effortlessly spill from the depths of Tall Paul\u2019s soul, he seamlessly weaves together the painful histories of settler colonialism, the forced removal of indigenous people from their rightful land, and the infamous genocidal project of the boarding school.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tall Paul intentionally raps about all of this \u2014 including the legacy of indigenous armed resistance \u2014 to set the backdrop for the world Thorpe would step into. Born just as the whites were celebrating the triumphant end of the \u201cIndian Wars,\u201d Thorpe and his twin brother Charlie were sent by their father into the very same boarding school system that claimed countless lives of native children. Richard Henry Pratt, the army captain who coined the infamous phrase \u201cKill the Indian, Save the Man,\u201d built the framework for the boarding school system, where native children were prohibited to speak their language and had their culture physically beaten out of them. Pratt\u2019s first off-reservation school would be Carlisle, the same place where Thorpe\u2019s athletic legacy would begin to take shape in 1907. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the album sounds like a thesis statement, it\u2019s because it is. Digging into his college education, Tall Paul researched all aspects of Thorpe\u2019s life, reading numerous books, including Robert W. Wheeler\u2019s \u201cJim Thorpe: World\u2019s Greatest Athlete,\u201d and watched numerous documentaries and interviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just really tried to dig in deep and find out as much accurate information as I could,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a tedious process. It was grueling. It wasn’t always enjoyable. Sometimes, it felt like an assignment, but at the same time I knew that it was important and I did enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the track \u201cNo Place for Young Men,\u201d \u2014 one of the album’s best songs \u2014 we learn that Thorpe and Charlie first attended the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school at the behest of their father. \u201cHis dad wanted him to learn the white man’s way so that he could come back and use those skills to empower himself and his loved ones in this new world,\u201d Tall Paul said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s in the song \u201cKeep On Keeping On\u201d where we hear the heartbreak Thorpe suffered as a child. Charlie, who Thorpe called his strength, died at the age of nine of pneumonia. While at Haskell Institute, another boarding school, Jim\u2019s mother would soon follow, dying while giving birth to her 11th child. By age 17, and now attending Carlisle, Jim\u2019s father would die of gangrene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim was alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe lost basically everybody close to him while he was in these boarding schools and he dealt with a lot of that trauma,\u201d Tall Paul said. \u201cAnd he was able to fight through all of those things and still become the person that he was, the legend that he was as an athlete and a person.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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Rapper Tall Paul, wearing Jim Thorpe\u2019s iconic Carlisle football jersey, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Courtesy photo <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A Native Threat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tracks \u201cAin\u2019t Nobody Gonna Tackle Ol\u2019 Jim,\u201d \u201cYou Shot Me\u201d and \u201cLegend\u201d chronicle Thorpe\u2019s meteoric athletic rise. At Carlisle, Jim excelled in all sports, most notably track and field, ballroom dancing and football. Thorpe played for Pop Warner \u2014 who to this day has a children\u2019s football program named after him \u2014 a coach who exploited him. Thorpe, technically an amateur, went unpaid for his athletic achievements at Carlisle. Still, under Thorpe\u2019s leadership, Carlisle\u2019s football team upset top-ranked Harvard in 1911. The following year, in what is perhaps still one of the most symbolic victories in American sports, Thorpe and his fellow natives at Carlisle thrashed West Point Army 27-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJim Thorpe and his teammates realized that they were going on to the proverbial battlefield with the children of the people who colonized our ancestors and who did cowardly things. And it’s a level playing field,\u201d Tall Paul said. \u201cIt was kind of like the first time these native kids felt like they had a fair shake. So they took advantage of it and we’re dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1912, Thorpe represented the United States at the Sweden Olympics, taking gold in both the classic pentathlon and the decathlon. He was stripped a year later of his medals when it was reported that he was meagerly paid for playing semi-professional baseball years before the Olympics. Warner, who marketed Thorpe’s native heritage and ability for ticket sales, refused to come to Thorpe\u2019s aid. It wasn\u2019t until this past July that the International Olympic Committee reinstated Thorpe as the sole winner of both events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s when the album begins its conclusion that we see Thorpe\u2019s light begin to dim. Mourning the death of his child and struggling with alcoholism and family issues, Thorpe died penniless in 1953 in the California trailer he shared with his third wife. Those struggles were important for Tall Paul to highlight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was this great athlete, he was also still a human being who had real-life issues, just like me,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that made him more human to me \u2026 it makes his story even that much more inspiring and motivating.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final song, \u201cSomeone Great Who Looked Like Me,\u201d was actually the catalyst for Taul Paul\u2019s project. It was in 2017 that Tall Paul wrote that song, and with a grant from the First Peoples Fund, Tall Paul created a music video<\/a>, visiting the various places that molded Thorpe into the person he would become. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to tell his story so that people could learn about him,\u201d Tall Paul said. \u201cAnd remember him, remember his legacy and who he was, how great he was, and do my small part in increasing his visibility. And the fact that people are still talking about him, roughly 70 years after his death, that’s pretty powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Tall Paul\u2019s album, \u201cThe Story of Jim Thorpe,\u201d is available for download.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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