Tall Paul

Hip Hop Artist

Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota. He's based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a prolific producer and known in the underground and Indigenous circuits. He is also one half of the Indigenous hip-hop duo Point of Contact.

	Loops, Dance-Offs and Ojibwe Verse: Native Creators Remix Old And New	Rapper Tall Paul uses hip-hop to reclaim his Native language—and he's not the only musician remixing Native culture.
	Indigenous excellence: Hip hop and the legacy of Jim Thorpe	Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida rapper enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota. His new album is called "The Story of Jim Thorpe." Charles Monroe-Kane spoke with him about Thorpe’s legacy, sports and hip-hop.
	Was Jim Thorpe the greatest athlete who ever lived?	Drawn from conversations with hip-hop artist Tall Paul, journalist Patty Loew and biographer David Maraniss, we hear stories from the NFL, from baseball, and, of course, from what made Thorpe a legend —the 1912 Olympic Games.
	The white man's trophy	During his traditional Sac and Fox funeral in Oklahoma, Jim Thorpe's body was stolen and sold to a small Pennsylvania town. His body is still there as a trophy and tourist trap. Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo tells the story.
	A hero who looks like me	Jim Thorpe was stripped of the Olympic gold medals awarded to him in 1912, but activists finally got them back in 2022. Today, Thorpe's legacy is about more than medals or even correcting historic wrongs — young Native Americans are looking to him for inspiration.

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