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This Week in NDN All-Stars History: August 30–September 5, 2026
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This week in NDN All-Stars history, we begin with one of the strangest Olympic marathons ever run — and one of the most important moments in Native American sports history.
At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Seneca marathon runner Frank Pierce becomes the first Native American athlete to compete in the Olympics. He will not finish the grueling race, but simply by taking his place in the field, Pierce makes history and begins more than a century of Native participation in the…
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