Grace Thorpe graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Antioch School of Law, and went on to become a tribal district court judge.
In 1999, she received a Nuclear-Free Future Award for her opposition to storing toxic and radioactive waste on indigenous land.
She earned a paralegal degree from Antioch School of Law in 1974 and earned her bachelor’s degree in American Indian Law at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1980. She also worked as a part-time district court judge for the Five Tribes of Oklahoma.
She began her environmental activism in 1992 when she learned from a Daily Oklahoman article that her Sac and Fox tribe had accepted a federal grant to study the placement of radioactive waste on tribal land.
The Sac and Fox, as well as sixteen other Native American tribes, accepted the grant, believing that the money would come without strings attached and would help alleviate their high unemployment.
Grace Thorpe children: Meet Dagmar Thorpe and Paul Thorpe
Dagmar Thorpe and Paul Thorpe are the wonderful children of the late Grace Thorpe. Dagmar is 76 years old and was born in 1947, in Japan. She is the granddaughter of Olympic gold medalist, Jim Thorpe and she resides in Prague, Oklahoma. She is a writer and advocates for American Indian affairs.
Paul Thorpe was also the grandson of Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe but unfortunately, he was involved in a car accident in the mid-1960s and died in his teenage. His mother, Grace was devastated and felt she needed a drastic change to overcome her depression and chose to relocate to Arizona in 1967.
Their mother, Grace got married to their father Lieutenant Fred W. Seely in June 1946. The couple divorced in 1950, and Grace and her children left Japan and returned to the United States to live in Pearl River, New York, near her father’s home. In 1967, Grace moved to Arizona and began to focus on her activism.
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