Tom Conroy. Photo from Native Sun News
Tom Conroy: Forty-four years behind the mic
Conroy retires as voice of Pine Ridge Thorpes football
By James Giago Davies
Native Sun News correspondent PINE RIDGE –– He looks as much cowboy as he does Indian, and Tom Conroy is a whole lot of both; the evidence for the former being his cowboy hat and boots and working knowledge of rodeo and cattle ranching. The evidence for the latter goes all the way back to the 18th Century and a Lakota man named Body Parts who married a Lakota woman named White Rabbit, and they had a daughter, Rattling Blanket Woman, and she was the mother of T’shunka Witco, Crazy Horse, and he is the second cousin twice removed of Tom Conroy. Tom has been many things in his life, all of which he has retired from: a civil engineer, a BIA employee, a tribal councilman, a school board chairman, a county commissioner, but the one thing he was best known for, and the last thing he gave up, was being the voice of Pine Ridge Thorpes football.
Read the rest of the story on the all new Native Sun News website: Tom Conroy: Forty-four years behind the mic (James Giago Davies can be reached at skindiesel@msn.com) Copyright permission Native Sun News
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