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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;
font-weight:bold'>Native son: <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Okla.</st1:place></st1:State>
QB Bradford brings pride to Cherokees </span></font></b><font face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>By Steve
Wieberg, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ANADARKO, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Okla.</st1:place></st1:State>
— Sam Bradford's a genuine star now. Saturday, the <st1:State w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:State>
quarterback will join college football's glitterati in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State> for the televised presentation of
the Heisman Trophy. He's favored to win it. At 6-4, with smarts and cool and an
uncannily accurate right arm, he's beginning to generate talk of going first in
the NFL draft — whenever the third-year sophomore might choose to enter
it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"The guy's
unbelievable," says Bob Stoops, who declares him better than both the
Heisman winner and Heisman runner-up he previously coached at OU.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But it's in places like
this little town an hour's drive west of Norman, at the edge of Oklahoma's
Great Plains Country, that each touchdown pass, each win, each TV close up of
Bradford's 21-year-old face resonates loudest.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is Native American
land, home to seven western Oklahoma Indian tribes, where life is hardscrabble
and optimism and inspiration can be scarce. Anadarko's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Riverside</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Indian</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, the nation's
oldest federally operated Indian boarding school, doles out both to some 600
students from 25 states enrolled in fourth grade through high school. Its
football program has struggled and was dropped for a couple of seasons, but
restarted this year and drew more than 40 boys who suited up for the varsity
team.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Their inspiration is <st1:place
w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Sooners' star is four
generations removed from the last full-blooded Native American in his family,
and his suburban rearing came with little exposure to American Indian culture.
But he's Indian nonetheless, a registered Cherokee. And Saturday's prospective
Heisman coronation — near the end of a season in which Bradford has led
No. 1-ranked <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:place></st1:State>
to the cusp of a national championship — is momentous and moving for many
Native Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"It opens everything
up for us," says Ray Brady, a <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>
junior and tight end on the football team. "Like Obama becoming
President."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Nearly a century has
passed since Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian also born in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:place></st1:State>, began shaping his legend as the
greatest all-around athlete the modern world has seen. It has been 44 years
since Billy Mills, a Sioux, ran to a 10,000-meter gold medal in the 1964
Olympics. They remain the standards of Native American athletic excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Elders like J.R. Cook, a
Cherokee who heads United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY), an Oklahoma
City-based agency designed "to foster the spiritual, mental, physical, and
social development" of young American Indians and Alaska Natives, rank
Bradford right behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"It's not just that
he's a college football player," Cook says. "He's the quarterback, a
team leader. He's admired by his peers and coaches. They speak very highly of
him. … And being a serious contender for the Heisman, that's not happened
before."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>He adds, "It's a
little sad that you have to go back 40-some years to find a role model of this
quality."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cook takes out his
Blackberry and pulls up a text message he has saved for a couple of weeks. It's
from an acquaintance in <st1:State w:st="on">Arizona</st1:State>, a Sioux woman
who caught the nationally televised, 61-41 victory against <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType>
in which <st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place> passed for four TDs and made
a now-famous, cart wheeling dive for the end zone to set up a short scoring
run.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"<st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place>
for President," she'd typed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cook slips the Blackberry
back into his pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"It's all over the
country," he says. "I really don't think Sam realizes."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>'A
perfectionist'</span></font></b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bradford</span></font></st1:place><font
size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, whose dad, Kent, is a former OU offensive lineman, is something
of a conflicted hero. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
great-grandmother, Susie Walkingstick, was Cherokee and he's of one-eighth
descent. Sam, whose mother, Martha, is white, is one-sixteenth. But until <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:place></st1:State> publicized his
lineage a year ago, it was incidental to the family's life. They're aware of
their heritage, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region>
says, but unattuned to its customs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"When people ask me
questions about it, I have to be careful with how I answer," Sam says.
"It's something I'm definitely proud of, and I'll never shy away from it.
But I don't know probably as much as I should know or as much as some people
may think I know."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>At the same time, he
says, "God has blessed me with a great platform. If I can use that in a
positive way and be a role model for younger kids, set a good example for them,
I think it's a really good thing."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>His appeal starts, of
course, with his performance. Throwing for 4,464 yards and a nation-high 48
touchdowns, Bradford has been the centerpiece of a ridiculously prolific
Oklahoma offense that scored 60-plus points in each of its last five
regular-season games — something no team had done since 1919.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>He throws a TD pass every
nine or so attempts, an interception just once every 74 attempts, and is on
pace to break the major-college efficiency record set two years ago by Hawaii's
Colt Brennan. Bradford's already all over the OU record book, supplanting 2003
Heisman winner Jason White and 2000 runner-up Josh Heupel in just about every
relevant single-season passing category and setting a career mark with 84 TD
passes in just two seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Turn in a typical game
Jan. 8 in <st1:City w:st="on">Miami</st1:City>, where he and the Sooners (12-1)
will play <st1:State w:st="on">Florida</st1:State> (12-1) for the national
championship, and <st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place> also will surpass
White's career record of 7,922 passing yards. He needs 338.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It's his precision
— the 68.3% accuracy, a single interception in OU's last six games
— that wows people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"If it's not a good
ball, it's probably for a reason. He's putting it in a place where you don't
have a chance to get your head knocked off," says the Sooners' All-Big 12
Conference tight end, Jermaine Gresham. "Wherever he puts the football,
just roll with it."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>That hasn't come by
accident.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"He's a perfectionist
by nature," says Heupel, now the Sooners' quarterbacks coach. "That's
why he comes in on Monday afternoon (to pore over film) after going 23-of-26
— nearly perfect — finding flaws and finding ways to get
better."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"The best coaching
tool," offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson says, "is to look at (him)
and say, 'That's what it looks like. That's how you practice. That's how you
prepare.'It's better than sitting at the board and drawing circles. A picture's
worth thousands of words.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"Whether he's the
greatest now or will ever be or where he ranks doesn't really matter. It's just
nice in this day and age to see a great player bust his tail every day and buy
in."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>'Danged-near
perfect'</span></font></b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A finance major, <st1:place
w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place> carries a 3.95 grade-point average.
Post-football, he plans to become a corporate attorney. As Heupel puts it,
"He's the total package." It's not hard to see how an Indian populace
thirsting for positive role models has latched onto him.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Some 4.1 million <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> residents
consider themselves Native Americans, including 281,000 Cherokees and more than
729,000 who claim some Cherokee ancestry. Close to 11.4% of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:place></st1:State>'s population — almost 392,000
— has Cherokee ancestry, according to the 2000 census.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The difficulties of
Native American life are well documented: higher-than-normal rates of poverty,
alcoholism, suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"It's getting a
little better," says <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Riverside</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Indian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>'s
co-superintendent, Milton Noel. "But there are so many places where
there's not enough to go around."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Precious few make it big
in sports. Charles Albert "Chief" Bender and Allie
"Superchief" Reynolds found fame in baseball. Hall of Fame catcher
Johnny Bench, who grew up 21 miles north of Anadarko in Binger, <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Okla.</st1:place></st1:State>, is one-eighth
Choctaw, though he never has been popularly identified or celebrated as an
American Indian star.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Eyes today are on a
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w:st="on">Okla.</st1:State>, who's in his second year at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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rebuilding program — 70 in junior high and high school — was that
high, in part, because of him.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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model for anybody. The guy's carrying a 3.95. Never gets in trouble. Is
well-spoken. Puts off the impression that he's danged-near perfect. … Something
we hopefully can inspire these kids to do is not only look at him but look at
good people like that in general."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'> gets numerous requests for appearances at Native American events
but hasn't, as yet, made one. The timing just hasn't worked, he says. But as
Native America's interest in him grows, he says he finds his interest in his
Indian background growing in turn.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'> "Corntassel" Smith, principal Chief of the Tahlequah,
Okla.-based Cherokee Nation, has expressed an interest in sitting down with the
athlete, and <st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place> says he's looking
forward to it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"I think that's
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possible."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More immediately, there's
his trip to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of more than 306,000
athletes in Divisions I, II and III in 2006-07, the most recent year tracked by
the NCAA, just one-half of 1% were Native American. In major-college football,
the percentage drops to 0.4%. Bradford is believed to be the first to start at
quarterback for a major program since <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>'s
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If it's <st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place>'s name that is called, he'll
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