Standing Bear Of The Ponca

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Standing Bear Of The Ponca

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Author : Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01

Standing Bear Of The Ponca written by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

For Ages 8 and up Imagine having to argue in court that you are a person. Yet this is just what Standing Bear, of the Ponca Indian tribe, did in Omaha in 1879. And because of this trial, the law finally said that an Indian was indeed a person, with rights just like any other American. Standing Bear of the Ponca tells the story of this historic leader, from his childhood education in the ways and traditions of his people to his trials and triumphs as chief of the Bear Clan of the Ponca tribe. Most harrowing is the winter trek on which Standing Bear led his displaced people, starving and sick with malaria, back to their homeland—only to be arrested by the U.S. government, which set the stage for his famous trial. Standing Bear’s story is also the story of a changing America, when the Ponca, like so many Indian tribes, felt the pressure of pioneers looking to settle the West. Standing Bear died in 1908, but his legacy and influence continue even up to the present.

Standing Bear And The Ponca Chiefs

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Author : Thomas Henry Tibbles
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01

Standing Bear And The Ponca Chiefs written by Thomas Henry Tibbles and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with History categories.

"Read [this book] before you read another thing. Surely you too will rank it as a classic".-American Indian Crafts and Culture. Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government to move to Indian Territory. During the year they were driven out, 158 out of 730 died, including Standing Bear's young son, who had begged to be buried on the Niobrara. Early in 1879 the chief, accompanied by a small band, defied the federal government by returning to the ancestral home with the boy's body. At the end of ten weeks of walking through winter cold, they were arrested. However, General George Crook, touched by their "pitiable condition", turned for help to Thomas H. Tibbles, a crusading newspaperman on the Omaha Daily Herald, who rallied public support. Citing the Fourteenth Amendment, Standing Bear brought suit against the federal government. The resulting trial first established Indians as persons within the meaning of the law. At the end of his testimony, Standing Bear held out his hand to the judge and pleaded for recognition of his humanity: "My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be of the same color as yours. I am a man. The same God made us both". Kay Graber, editor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Press, has edited and provided a new introduction for this eyewitness account of the celebrated court case. She is also editor of Sister to the Sioux (Nebraska 1978).

The Long Struggle

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Author : Kaci Nash
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

The Long Struggle written by Kaci Nash and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.

Standing Bear Is A Person

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Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2009-04-28

Standing Bear Is A Person written by Stephen Dando-Collins and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with History categories.

In 1877, Standing Bear and his Indian people, the Ponca, were forcibly removed from their land in northern Nebraska. In defiance, Standing Bear sued in U.S. District Court for the right to return home. In a landmark case, the judge, for the first time in U.S. history, recognized Native American rights-acknowledging that "Standing Bear is a person"-and ruled in favor of Standing Bear. Standing Bear Is a Person is the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of that landmark 1879 court case, and the subsequent reverberations of the judge's ruling across nineteenth-century America. It is also a story filled with memorable characters typical of the Old West-the crusty and wise Indian chief, Standing Bear, the Army Indian-fighting general who became a strong Indian supporter, the crusading newspaper editor who championed Standing Bear's cause, and the "most beautiful Indian maiden of her time," Bright Eyes, who became Standing Bear's national spokesperson. At a time when America was obsessed with winning the West, no matter what, this is an intensely human story and a small victory for compassion. It is also the chronicle of an American tragedy: Standing Bear won his case, but the court's decision that should have changed everything, in the end, changed very little for America's Indians.

The Ponca Chiefs

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Author : Thomas Henry Tibbles
language : en
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1972

The Ponca Chiefs written by Thomas Henry Tibbles and has been published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Law categories.

Eyewitness account of the law suit that "first established Indians as persons within the meaning of the law."

I Am A Man

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Author : Joe Starita
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2010-01-05

I Am A Man written by Joe Starita and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-05 with History categories.

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination. On another level, it is a story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism. A story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil. And it is a story of hope---of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804. Before it ends, Standing Bear's long journey home also explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity, and the nature of democracy---issues that continue to resonate loudly in twenty-first-century America. It is a story that questions whether native sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible with American democracy. Standing Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how the nation's delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and under siege today. Joe Starita's well-researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction as his careful characterizations and vivid descriptions bring this piece of American history brilliantly to life.

The Trial Of Standing Bear

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Author : Francis Anthony Keating
language : en
Publisher: Oklahoma Heritage Assn
Release Date : 2008

The Trial Of Standing Bear written by Francis Anthony Keating and has been published by Oklahoma Heritage Assn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Follows Ponca Chief Standing Bear, his family, and members of his tribe from their forced removal from the banks of the Niobrara River in northeast Nebraska to Indian Territory, and the victory that began the struggle for Native American civil rights.

I Have Found A Better Way

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Author : John Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2008-02-22

I Have Found A Better Way written by John Brennan and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-22 with Ponca Indians categories.

The book is a novel based on the true story of Standing Bear of the Ponca tribe. It relates the story from the time the tribe is forced out of its Nebraska homelands and sent to the Indian Territory, their journey there, their tragic life there and Standing Bear's journey back to Nebraska after his young son dies. It follows the trial of Standing Bear who, with the help of a newspaperman and two lawyers, wins the case and eventually returns his home.

Standing Bear S Quest For Freedom

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date :

Standing Bear S Quest For Freedom written by and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

The Standing Bear Controversy

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Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003

The Standing Bear Controversy written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Indians of North America categories.

In this book Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of all Native Americans, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement"--BOOK JACKET.