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This Week in NDN All-Stars History: Charles Bender, Jacoby Ellsbury, Henry Armstrong & More · Sports History Network

• 1:46
  Its 1911 and the world Series is on the line.
• 1:50
  Behind the plate for the New York Giants, a catcher has spent six games dealing with pitchers, baserunners and the kind of plays that rarely make the headlines across the diamond.
• 2:01
  Philadelphia's ace is trying to finish the series.
• 2:05
  When the final out is made, both men will have a place in World Series history.
• 2:10
  But only one of them will be celebrating this story and more coming up on this Week in Indian All Stars history.
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  History welcome to Indian All Stars.
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  I'm Bill Black and every week we travel back to discover how Native athletes help shape the world of sports.
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  Because history isn't trapped behind museum glass, it comes alive.
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  Indian All Stars celebrates great Native American athletes from the past and the present, bringing these great All Stars back into the spotlight for new generations.
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  Now let's look back and find out what happened.
• 2:46
  Here's what happened the week of October 25 through October 31 in Indian All Stars history.
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  October 25 starts in 1941 with a punting performance that still stands in the University of Oklahoma record book.
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  Creek football player Jack Jacobs punts 18 times as the Oklahoma Sooners beat the 8th ranked Santa Clara Broncos 166 in difficult weather.
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  One of those kicks travels 76.
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  The win is also Oklahoma's first against a team ranked in the Associated Press top 10.
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  17 years later in 1958, Detroit Pistons center Phil Jordan Wielicki and namlaki has a 33 point night against the St.
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  Louis Hawks.
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  He hits 13 field goals, makes all seven of his free throws and helps Detroit win 117 to 112.
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  It's the first of six games in his NBA career with 30 points or more and it's his career high.
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  Also in 1958, jockey Johnny Sellers Cherokee rides Jack Ketch to victory in the Canadian Championship Stakes at New Woodbine in Toronto.
• 3:56
  It's a big international win early in his rise through Thoroughbred racing.
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  The event eventually becomes the race known as the Canadian International Jump ahead to 1967 Delaware basketball player Gary Gray makes his NBA debut with the Cincinnati Royals against the Los Angeles lakers.
• 4:16
  Cincinnati loses 132, 116, but Gray is underway in a season that will see him appear in 44 games for the Royals.
• 4:28
  In 1998, golfer Nota Begay III Navajo San Felipe and Ayeleta finishes 10th on the Nike Tour money list.
• 4:35
  That result earns him PGA tour status for 1999 and takes him from the developmental circuit to the top level of professional golf in 2010.
• 4:45
  Major League Soccer honors Kai Owa forward Chris Wanda Lowski with his third player of the Week award.
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  His late season scoring run includes three goals against Chivas USA and carries him toward the Golden Boot.
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  He finishes the regular season with 18 goals, the most in the league.
• 5:01
  The next year, 2008 brings a major honor for lacrosse great Oren Lyons Onondaga.
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  He's inducted into the Native American Athletic hall of Fame at the Seneca Nation Casino in Niagara Falls.
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  The honor recognizes both his playing career and his long connection to lacrosse.
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  The Creators gang in 2010, Major League Soccer honors Kaiowa forward Chris Wandelowski with his third Player of the Week award.
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  His late season scoring run includes three goals against Chivas USA and carries them toward the Golden Boot.
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  He finishes the regular season with 18 goals, the most in the league.
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  Six years later, in 2016, Potawatomi guard Ron Baker makes his regular season NBA debut for the New York Knicks against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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  He scores five points in just under seven minutes, including his first NBA three pointer.
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  After his college career, Baker is now officially an NBA player.
• 5:59
  2019 brings a Hall of Fame honor for former Wingate University football standout Kenwin Cummings Jr.
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  Lumby.
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  The school inducts him during its blue Carpet Gala and homecoming weekend.
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  Cummings earns two All American selections and three First Team All South Atlantic Conference honors during his Wingate career, then makes the jump from Division 2 football to the the NFL and in 2020, Los Angeles Chargers receiver Keenan Allen
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  Lumby catches 10 passes for 125 yards as the Chargers beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 39 29.
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  Counting postseason play, it's his 26th NFL game with at least 100 receiving yards.
• 6:43
  On October 26th, we return to the World Series scene from the cold open.
• 6:47
  It's 1911 and the Philadelphia athletics are one victory from another championship.
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  Ojibwe pitcher Charles Bender goes the distance, holds the New York Giants to four hits and wins the deciding game.
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  13 2.
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  It's Philadelphia's second straight World Series title.
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  Bender completes three games in the series and finishes with two wins against one loss, tying the mark for complete games pitched in a single World Series.
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  On the other side of the field, Giants catch catcher John Tortes Myers Kaweah finishes the six game series with 12 assists behind the plate, setting a World Series record for assists by a catcher in a series of that
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  length.
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  Two Indian All Stars, two very different marks on the same championship day in 1942, Iroquois boxing great Henry Armstrong faces Fritzi Zivich in San Francisco.
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  Zivic is the man who took Armstrong's world Welterweight championship and beat him again in 1941.
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  This time Armstrong gets the decision after 10 rounds.
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  It's a measure of revenge against one of his toughest rivals.
• 7:50
  The year is 1951, when Cherokee heavyweight Joe Louis faces Rocky Marciano at Madison Square Garden and Marciano stops him in the eighth round.
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  It's Lewis's final professional bout and Marciano goes on to become an undefeated heavyweight champion.
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  The two fighters meet at very different points in their careers.
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  Five years later, in 1956, Phil Jordan is part of a five player NBA trade.
• 8:15
  The Minneapolis Lakers send Jordan, Jerry Bird and Slater Martin to the New York Knicks in exchange for Walter Dukes and Burdette Halderson.
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  The deal moves the Wylockey and nom Lockheed center to the franchise, where he soon begins his NBA playing career.
• 8:31
  In 1970, Cherokee gymnast James Konadi Allen competes at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in ljubljana.
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  He finishes 33rd in the men's all around competition and is the second highest American finisher behind Makoto Sakamoto.
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  The United States finishes seventh in the team standings.
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  Allen is a full member of this World Championships team after serving as an alternate four years earlier.
• 8:55
  Move ahead to 2007 Navajo and Yaqui mixed martial artist Wachiyin Spirit Wolf faces Roger Krall at World Fighting Championships 5 in Tampa, Florida.
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  Spirit Wolf catches him in a guillotine choke.
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  He gets the submission at first, 4 minutes 14 seconds of the first round.
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  It's the only submission win of a professional career better known for striking, including eight knockout or technical knockout victories in 2008.
• 9:20
  We're back with Chris Wandlowski, now with the Houston Dynamo.
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  The Kiowa forward captains Houston's reserve squad and scores as the Dynamo clinch the Major League Soccer reserve division championship.
• 9:32
  Three stories land on this date in 2013.
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  First, Ojibwe hockey player Kayla Gardner from Eagle Lake scores the first goal of her college career for the University of North Dakota women's hockey team.
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  She battles for a loose puck in front of the net and pushes it through the goalie's legs late in the second period.
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  Sixth ranked North Dakota beats the St.
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  Cloud State Huskies 6 1.
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  Gardner is just eight games into her freshman season on the football field.
• 9:59
  That same year, Chickasaw quarterback Bryce petty throws for 430 yards and three touchdowns in a Baylor Bears victory over the Kings.
• 10:06
  Kansas Jayhawks it's his seventh straight game with at least 300 passing yards in his first seven college starts, extending his Baylor mark.
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  He's also thrown at least two touchdown passes in every start.
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  Meanwhile, Wichita quarterback Dane Evans makes his first college start for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane against the Tulane Green Wave in New Orleans.
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  The red shirt freshman completes 13 passes for 139 yards.
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  It's the beginning of a starting run that eventually takes him to the top of Tulsa's career passing lists.
• 10:38
  2019 gives us several very different accomplishments.
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  Oklahoma State Cowboys linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez Cherokee comes up with the play that decides a game against 23rd ranked Iowa State.
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  With the score tied at 27 and fewer than seven minutes left, Rodriguez jumps a passing lane and returns an interception 2026 yards for a touchdown.
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  Oklahoma State wins 34 27.
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  Rodriguez also makes 11 tackles and breaks up another pass at the NHL Heritage Classic in Regina that same year, Atticacup Cree hockey pioneer Fred Sasakamus takes part in the ceremonial puck drop alongside Olympic medalist Brigette Laquette Metis and
• 11:19
  young Indigenous hockey players the moment at Mosaic Stadium recognizes past Trailblazers and the Park National Next Generation of hockey players.
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  Also in 2019, North Texas mean Green quarterback Mason Fine Cherokee throws for 394 yards and five touchdowns against the Charlotte 49ers.
• 11:36
  Those five touchdown passes make him North Texas's all time leader in touchdowns, responsible for moving him past Mitch Mar.
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  The Heritage Classic also gives Metis defenseman Travis Hamonic a career milestone playing for the Calgary Flames against the Winnipeg jets in Regina.
• 11:52
  He appears in his 600th NHL regular season game and an Illinois powerlifter Eddie Lone Eagle Red Lake ojibwe wins the 220 pound open multiply division at the WPC Can Am Championships.
• 12:05
  His lifts include an 887.3 pound squat, a 512.5 pound bench press and a 622.8 pound deadlift.
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  The combined total is 2022.7 pounds.
• 12:20
  Four years later in 2023, Metis defenseman Travis Hamonik reaches another round number.
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  Now with the Ottawa Senators, he plays his 800th NHL regular season game against the New York Islanders on Long island, where his NHL career began.
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  Two big moments close out Oct.
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  26 in 2024.
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  First, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Mescalero Apache ski racer Ross Anderson.
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  Anderson receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from SKI New Mexico and the New Mexico Ski hall of Fame in Albuquerque.
• 12:48
  The award recognizes his record setting racing career and years of work introducing native young people to skiing and snowboarding.
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  He becomes the first Native American to receive that hall's lifetime achievement induction.
• 13:02
  And at the Indian National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Navajo team roper Eric Rodgers and partner Aaron Sinek win the world Championship.
• 13:10
  They finished the four steer average in 21.25 seconds, just six hundredths of a second faster than Dwight Sells and Cody Lansing.
• 13:18
  Rodgers and Sinogeen also win this title together in 2010 and 2021.
• 13:23
  October 27th takes us first to 1900 and an early chapter of professional football Seneca football player Isaac Seneca is in the middle of a fight with Latrobe quarterback Al Kennedy during a game between the Greensburg Athletic association and
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  the La Trobe Athletic Association.
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  The scuffle spreads to other players and spectators before Greensburg loses six to nothing.
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  The disturbance is serious enough that extra police are assigned when the teams meet again in 1936.
• 13:51
  Henry Armstrong is back in the boxing story, this time against Mike Belois in Los Angeles.
• 13:57
  Belois holds New York's recognition as featherweight champion and Armstrong earns a decision victory.
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  The Iroquois fighter is moving steadily toward the undisputed world championship.
• 14:08
  Fast forward to 1988.
• 14:10
  Brian Trottier, Metis, plays his 1000th NHL regular season game.
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  He spent every one of those games to this point in a New York Islander sweater.
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  It's another milestone in a career already packed with major achievements.
• 14:24
  2005 brings the professional boxing debut debut of Colville fighter Billy the Kid Drywater at the Coeur d' Alene casino in Worley, Idaho.
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  The boxer knocks out Shawn Michael Hamilton in 2007.
• 14:37
  Jacoby Ellsbury has another World Series moment with the Boston Red Sox.
• 14:42
  The Navajo rookie collects four hits, including three doubles, as Boston beats the Colorado Rockies 105 in Game 3.
• 14:49
  He goes 4 for 5, becoming only the third rookie to get four hits in a World Series game.
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  A bat from that performance later finds a home in the National Baseball hall of fame.
• 15:00
  Three years later, in 2010, Chris Wandowski earns Major League Soccer Player of the Month honors.
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  His scoring run powers the San Jose Earthquakes toward the playoffs and helps deliver his first league scoring title.
• 15:12
  We've already heard about the Kiowa Strikers big October and he's not finished showing up in this week's history.
• 15:19
  Now to 2012 with two records on the same date, California Golden Bears receiver Keenan Allen Lumby catches the 203rd pass of his college career against the Utah Utes, moving past Jeff MacArthur as California's all time receptions leader.
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  On the very next play, Allen scores a touchdown.
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  He finishes his final college game with 205 career receptions.
• 15:43
  Also in 202012 Kiowa forward Chris Wandlowski scores on a penalty kick against the Portland timbers.
• 15:50
  It's his 27th goal of the season, tying Roy Lassiter's Major League Soccer single season scoring record in 2013, Kyoa mountain bike racer Kerry Werner wins the Division 1 individual omnium at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships
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  in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
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  Werner finishes the championship with 4, 419 points, earning his second collegiate omnium national title in three seasons.
• 16:15
  The following year, 2014, Oglala Lakota distance running legend Billy Mills receives the K Family Award at the Anti Defamation Leagues In Concert Against Hate.
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  Held at the Kennedy center in Washington, D.C.
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  the award recognizes his courage in confronting hatred, injustice and bias.
• 16:34
  2018 brings two hockey mountain milestones.
• 16:37
  Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price ocacho stops all 33 shots he faces in a 30 win over the Boston Bruins.
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  It's his 290th win with Montreal, moving him past Patrick Roy and the second place in Canadiens history behind only Jacques Plante.
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  That same year, Ojibwe forward Kayla Gardner scores her first goal in Sweden's top women's hockey league, the SDH.
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  Playing for Burness, she finds the net in a 61 victory over Godeborg.
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  It's another first in a career that has taken her through elite hockey in Canada, the United States and Sweden.
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  In 2021 strongman Colton Sloan Whitefish Lake finishes second in the heavyweight division at the Canadian Strongman Amateur Nationals and officially earns professional status.
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  It's a national first.
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  Sloan be becomes the first indigenous person in Canada to turn professional in the sport of strongman.
• 17:33
  A year later, in 2022, Navajo basketball player analyst Benali is part of a championship with Albanian club Flamertari in prison, kosovo.
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  Flamertari beats Bashkimi 6561 to win the women's Embarra Kambatari Super Cup.
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  It's an early trophy in Benali's first season with the club and in 2020.
• 17:53
  In 2023, Cherokee pitcher John Gray makes his World Series debut with the Texas Rangers against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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  He works 1 1/3 scoreless innings out of the bullpen, gives up one hit and strikes out four.
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  Texas goes on to win game one and extra innings.
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  We start October 28th.
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  In 1906, just ten days after Tom Longboat's breakthrough in the around the Bay race, the Onondaga distance runner wins Toronto's 15 mile Ward Marathon finish, finishing in 1:31:10 and 2/5 seconds.
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  It's another victory that tells the running world Longboat is no.
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  1 race sensation.
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  The next stop is 1999 and an open weight mixed martial arts tournament in Japan.
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  Walla Walla fighter Dan Henderson faces two opponents in the same night at Ring's King of Kings Block A.
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  He defeats Bakuri Gogitize and Hiromitsu Kanehara to advance from the 32 man opening field into the tournament finals.
• 18:48
  In 2000, Cherokee Return Specialist Wes Welker shows the Texas Tech Red Raiders that he can score in more than one way against the Kansas Jayhawks.
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  He runs a punt back 66 yards for a touchdown, then scores again on a 42 yard run.
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  Welker finishes with 272 all purpose yards as Texas Tech wins 45 39.
• 19:08
  In 2007, Jacoby Ellsworth, Ellsbury and the Boston Red Sox finish the job against the Colorado Rockies.
• 19:14
  Boston wins Game 4 to sweep the World Series, giving Ellsbury his first championship.
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  The Navajo rookie bats.438 for the series with seven hits, four doubles and a stolen base.
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  He takes over as Boston's starting center fielder during the postseason and makes his mark in a hurry.
• 19:31
  Two honors arrive in 2014.
• 19:34
  First, former Vancouver Connection Knox winger Genoajic Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg is announced as the sports recipient of the 2015 Inspire Awards.
• 19:44
  AJIC and the other recipients are recognized that day in Canada's House of Commons.
• 19:48
  The honor reflects his NHL career and his years as a mentor to indigenous young people.
• 19:54
  Also in 2014, Potawatomi quarterback Tyler Bray joins the Kansas City Chiefs and the Haskell Indian Indian Health Center Diabetes Prevention Program for an NFL Play 60 event in Lawrence, Kansas.
• 20:07
  Bray talks with American Indian youngsters about his Potawatomi identity and the importance of giving back.
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  In 2016, Billy Mills receives another honor.
• 20:18
  The Oglala Lakota Olympic champion enters the Marine Corps Marathon Runners hall of Fame, recognized for a life that includes both elite distance running and service as United States Marine officer.
• 20:29
  In 2017, mixed martial artist David Bulldog Michaux Oglala Lakota faces Tyler Milner at Sparta Combat League 63 in Rapid City.
• 20:39
  Michaux wins by rear naked choke at 2 minutes and 1 second of the first round, earning the 12th professional victory of his career.
• 20:48
  Jump ahead to 2019 Tiger Woods Cherokee wins the first Zozo Championship in Japan, finishing at 19 under par, three strokes ahead of Hideki Matsuyama.
• 20:57
  Weather pushes the finish to Monday, but the result is worth the extra day.
• 21:00
  It's Woods 82nd official PGA Tour victory, tying Sam Snead for the all time Tour mark.
• 21:07
  Also in 2019, Oklahoma State Cowboys linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez gets the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award.
• 21:15
  The Cherokee defender earned it with the 26 yard in the interception return that beat Iowa State plus 11 tackles and a pass breakup.
• 21:24
  Now to 2021 Cherokee pitcher Robbie Ray is voted the American League's outstanding pitcher in the Players Choice Awards, an honor decided by fellow major leaguers.
• 21:34
  Ray leads the league in earned run average, innings pitched and walks plus hits per inning pitched and his 248 strikeouts lead all of Major League Baseball.
• 21:43
  That same year, Dakota defenseman Zach White Cloud signs a six year contract extension with the Vegas Golden Knights, keeping him under contract through the 2027-2028 season.
• 21:53
  It's a long term commitment to a player who made the NHL after going undrafted in 2022.
• 22:00
  Cree defenseman Ethan Baer is on the move.
• 22:03
  The Vancouver Canucks acquire Baron Lane Petterson from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a fifth round pick in the 2023 NH NHL Draft.
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  In 2023, Osage defensive end Ethan Downs of the Oklahoma Sooners gets his own defensive highlight against the Kansas Jayhawks.
• 22:20
  Downs makes the first interception of his college career and returns at 13 yards.
• 22:24
  He also leads Oklahoma that season with four and a half sacks and earns all Big 12 recognition for the second straight year and 2025 gives Mohawk defenseman Brandon Montu a a 300 point NHL career milestone.
• 22:39
  With the Seattle Kraken facing the Montreal Canadiens, Montour scores twice and gets the primary assist on a goal by Shane wright.
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  Seattle scores three goals in the last 9 minutes and 20 seconds of regulation before losing 43 in overtime.
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  Montu finishes the night with three points, reaching 300 for his NHL career.
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  October 29th opens in 1937 one of Henry Armstrong's defining knights at Madison Square Garden.
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  The Iroquois boxer knocks out Petey Saron in the sixth round to win the World Featherweight Championship.
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  He claims the National Boxing Association, New York and Ring Magazine featherweight crowns, becoming the universally recognized champion of the division in 1959.
• 23:22
  Cherokee pitcher early win of the Chicago White Sox wins the Cy Young Award.
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  He goes 20, leads the American League in innings pitched and collects 13 of 16 votes from the baseball writers.
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  The Chicago White Sox have won the American League pennant and there's an extra distinction to wins honor at this point.
• 23:41
  Major League baseball awards just one Cy Young for both leagues.
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  Ten years later, in 1969, Nash P.
• 23:49
  Wampanoag forward Sonny Dove signs with the New York Nets and makes his American Basketball association debut that very day.
• 23:57
  More than two years after the Mets originally drafted, Dove finally joins the club and helps New York beat the Miami Floridians 99 92.
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  He goes on to average 14.4 points and 6.8 rebounds over 80 games that season.
• 24:12
  In 1993, Ponca and Oto heavyweight Tommy Morrison defends his World Boxing Organization championship against Michael Bent in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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  Bent knocks him down three times and wins by stoppage just 1 minute and 33 seconds into the first round.
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  It's a stunning upset that ends Morrison's title reign and his planned big money championship meeting with Lennox Lewis in 2007.
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  Choctaw quarterback Brett Favre and the Green Bay packers are in overtime against the Denver Broncos on Monday night.
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  On the first first play of the extra period, Favre finds Greg Jennings for an 82 yard touchdown.
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  Green Bay wins 19 13.
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  Favre finishes with 331 passing yards, two touchdowns and a passer rating of 142.4.
• 24:58
  In 2011, Red Lake Ojibwe powerlifter Eddie Lone Eagle enters his first recorded competition at the Elite Barbell Fall Classic in Minnesota.
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  He wins the 181 pound raw division division with a combined lifting total of 1030.6 pounds.
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  Now to 2012 with another chapter in Chris Wandelowski's remarkable scoring season, Major League Soccer formally recognizes the Kiowa forward as the Golden Boot winner after he finishes the year with 27 goals, tying Roy Lassiter's single season league record.
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  Eight years later in 2020, Wanda Lowski adds another another Major League Soccer Player of the Week award.
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  This one follows a two goal game against Real Salt Lake in 2023.
• 25:43
  Walker River Paiute offensive lineman Austin Corbett returns to the Carolina Panthers starting lineup.
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  It's been 294 days since he tore the ACL in his left knee.
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  Corbett starts at right guard against the Houston Texans and The Panthers win 1513 on a field goal as time runs out.
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  It's Carolina's first first victory of the season and a major return for Corvette.
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  Two more performances arrive in 2024.
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  First, Seattle Kraken defenseman Brandon Montour, Mohawk, scores the first hat trick of his NHL career as Seattle beats the Montreal Canadiens 8 2.
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  His three goals come consecutively, giving him a natural hat trick.
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  Montour adds an assist for four points, becomes the first Kraken defenseman with a hat trick and sets a Seattle FR franchise record for points in a game by a defenseman.
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  He's also just the eighth NHL defenseman in the previous 40 years to score a natural hat trick on the basketball court.
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  That same year, Kiowa and Cherokee guard Lindy Waters III comes off the bench for the Golden State warriors and scores 21 points against the New Orleans Pelicans he also contributes 8 rebounds and 4 assists with no turnovers and
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  finishes plus 26 Golden State wins 124106 with Waters delivering one of his strongest all around NBA performances October 30th stories begin in 1939.
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  Henry Armstrong is defending the World Welterweight championship at a pace that's hard to imagine.
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  The Iroquois fighter stops Bobby Pacho in the fourth round in Denver, completing five successful title defenses in just 21 days.
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  Five depends defenses in three weeks.
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  That tells you plenty about how active Armstrong is as a champion in 1943.
• 27:26
  Creek football player Jack Jacobs gives us a kickoff return that's anything but ordinary.
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  March field trails St.
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  Mary's pre flight 6 to nothing at Kezar Stadium.
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  Jacobs fields the kickoff near his goal line and starts up field, but the play doesn't end with him.
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  He laterals to Morris Buckingham he who moves the ball to Ali Day.
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  The relay covers nearly the length of the field for the touchdown and Marchfield wins.
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  7.
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  6 Jump to 2000 Remember Wes Welker's two touchdown game for the Texas Tech Red Raiders against the Kansas Jayhawks?
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  The Big 12 Conference names the Cherokee Athlete Special Teams Player of the Week for that performance, which includes a 66 yard punt return touchdown.
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  The game and the award fall on different dates so each has its place in this week's story.
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  In 2011, Kiowa cyclist Kerry Werner wins the Division 1 individual omnium national title at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships in Angelfire, New Mexico.
• 28:26
  Racing for Lees McCrae College across multiple disciplines, Werner scores 291 points to claim the collegiate all around crown two years later.
• 28:36
  Later in 2013, Jacoby Ellsberg Navajo is celebrating another World Series championship.
• 28:41
  The Boston Red Sox beat the St.
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  Louis Cardinals in Game 6 at Fenway park and the Navajo outfielder scores during Boston's decisive three run third inning.
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  The Red Sox win the series at home for the first time since 1918.
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  It's Ellsbury's second World Series title.
• 28:59
  In 2018, Sapatawea Cree winger Mikael Furlan scores the 100th point of his NHL career playing for the Carolina Hurricanes against the Boston Bruins.
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  Furlan finds a loose puck and puts it in on the power play.
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  It's his seventh goal of the season and the milestone comes in his 262nd regular season game during his first month with Carolina.
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  2021 brings a very different kind of athletic journey Dyne in Roller skater Melissa Skeetfighter Skeet begins a planned 300 mile trip across the Navajo Nation to raise awareness of missing and murdered indigenous women, children and two spirit relatives.
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  Her route is planned from Window Rock to Flagstaff and back, with the distance chosen to recall the Navajo Long Walk.
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  She ultimately completes 192 miles of the attempt.
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  In 2022, Cherokee linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez reaches two NFL firsts in the same game for the Detroit Lions against the Miami Dolphins.
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  He sacks quarterback Tua Tago Viloa and recovers a fumble forced by fellow rookie Kirby Joseph.
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  Rodriguez finishes with seven tackles and earns a nomination for NFL Rookie of the week.
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  2023 brings a major home state honor for Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara boxing champion Virgil Hill at the Bismarck the OF Event Center.
• 30:19
  Hill receives the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state's highest commendation for its citizens.
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  He becomes the 48th recipient with MHA Nation chairman Mark Fox helping recognize his career and his ties to North Dakota.
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  That same year, Texas Rangers pitcher John Gray Cherokee makes another big World Series contribution against the Arizona diamondbacks in Game 3.
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  He throws three scoreless, releases fittings, allows one hit, walks nobody and strikes out three.
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  25 of his 30 pitches are strikes.
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  The Rangers win 31 and Gray earns the victory.
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  He becomes just the second reliever to throw three scoreless World Series innings on 30 pitches or fewer.
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  October 31st starts in 1918 Cahuilla catcher John Tortes Myers, whom we met earlier in the 1911 World Series, joins the United States Marine Corps near the end the of of World War I.
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  The armistice comes 11 days later.
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  Before he's sent overseas.
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  Meyer serves until his honorable discharge on March 17, 1919.
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  In 1958, Wylockey and Nonlocky center Phil Jordan has another strong scoring night for the Detroit pistons.
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  He makes 10 field goals and 11 of 14 free throws, finishing with 31 points as Detroit beats the Cincinnati Royals 12020 to 113.
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  It's his second 30 point performance in six days.
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  Move to 1964 and Choctaw and Chickasaw linebacker Ed Wahoo McDaniel is making a highlight play for the New York jets against the Boston Patriots at Shea Stadium.
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  McDaniel returns an interception 38 yards for a touchdown.
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  New York wins 35 14.
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  It's the only touchdown of his nine year professional professional football career and he finishes the season with three interceptions.
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  In 1970, Cherokee quarterback Jim Plunkett throws three touchdown passes as Stanford beats Oregon State 48 10.
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  He completes 13 of 26 passes for 210 yards.
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  With the win, Stanford moves within one victory of clinching the Pacific 8 championship and its first Rose bowl appearance in 19 years.
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  The next milestone comes in 1997.
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  NBA center Cherokee Parks scores 20 points, collects nine rebounds and blocks five shots against the Golden State Warriors.
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  Parks, who is Cherokee, ties his career high with those five blocks.
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  One year later, in 1998, Navajo driver Corey Witherill has a breakthrough in Indy lights racing.
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  In his first race on an oval at California Speedway, He he starts 14th, moves into contention, leads laps and finishes fourth.
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  It's a strong showing in a very different kind of racing environment.
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  Two major sporting achievements follow in 1999 on the golf course Tiger Woods Cherokee wins the Tour Championship at 15 under par, four shots ahead of Davis Love III.
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  It's his 14th PGA Tour victory, one of the 82 official wins he eventually collects to tie Sam Sneed's career career mark on the ice.
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  That same year, Karuk figure skater Naomi Lang and partner Peter Chernyshev win bronze at Skate America in Colorado Springs.
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  It's their first medal on the International Skating Union Grand Prix circuit, coming during their first season as United States ice dance champions.
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  In 2000, Choctaw mixed martial artist Shannon Rich faces Kazushi Sakuraba in the Main event of Pride 11 at odds Osaka Castle hall in Japan.
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  Sakuraba wins by Achilles Lock in the first round, but the appearance puts Rich into the headlining bout of one of the world's biggest mixed martial arts promotions in 2011.
• 33:56
  Chris Wanda Lowski receives another Major League Soccer Player of the Month award after a strong late season scoring run.
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  The Kiowa forward has been a recurring name throughout this episode, and October gives us one more reminder of just how productive he is.
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  And we finish in 2014 with Sapatawea Cree winger Michael Furlan making his NHL debut for the Calgary Flames against the Nashville Predators.
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  The Flames win 4:3 at the Scotiabank Saddle Dome.
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  More than four years after Calgary selects him in the fifth round of the draft, Ferland is on the ice in the National Hockey League.
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  That wraps up another week of incredible moments in Indian All Stars history.
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  If you enjoyed today's look back, I invite you to visit IndianAllstars.com where you'll find more athlete stories, blog articles, videos, podcast episodes and exclusive merchandise celebrating great Native American athletes from the past and the present.
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  I hope you'll join me again next week as we bring more great Native athletes back into the spotlight.
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  Until until then, this is Indian All Stars.