John Baptiste Thunder (February 23, 1891 - December 17, 1935) was a professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
player who played in the
National Football League (NFL) during the
1922 season. That season, he joined the NFL's
Oorang Indians
The Oorang Indians () were a traveling team in the National Football League from LaRue, Ohio (near Marion). The franchise was a novelty team put together by Walter Lingo to market his Oorang dog kennels. All of the Indians players were Native Am ...
. The Indians were a team based in
LaRue, Ohio, composed only of
Native Americans, and coached by
Jim Thorpe. Thunder was a
Chippewa.
Family
The son of Joseph Thunder and Nancy Greely, Baptiste was married three times. First he married Isabella Neadeau in 1913 with whom who he had four daughters from 1913 until 1919; Edna Victoria, Dorothy Louisa, Susan Alice and Margaret Josephine. In the early 1920s he married an unknown woman with whom he had a son, Ralph Jerome. In 1931, Thunder married his third wife, Rachel MacDonald, with whom he had four more children, John Baptiste, Joseph Marcell, Genevieve and Imogene Mable.
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References
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Uniform Numbers of the NFL
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1891 births
1935 deaths
20th-century Native Americans
Native American sportspeople
Players of American football from Minnesota
Oorang Indians players