Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football Team leadership "You're gonna need a rock

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed

"One of the most profound contributions to North American history

"More than I could have asked for in a novel

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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football Team leadership "You're gonna need a rockUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story and more. It's an unflinching look at the U. S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it's the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced