A Forgotten Olympic First
Taffy Abel, U.S. hockey's initial American Indian player, won a silver medal at the inaugural Winter Games almost a century ago
National Museum of the American Indian
Jim Adams
Jim Adams is a senior historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
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