Standing Bear and the Ponca chiefs / Thomas Henry Tibbles ; edited with an introduction by Kay Graber.
1995
KF228.S78 T54 1995eb
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Title
Standing Bear and the Ponca chiefs / Thomas Henry Tibbles ; edited with an introduction by Kay Graber.
Uniform Title
Ponca chiefs
Cover Title
Standing Bear & the Ponca chiefs
ISBN
0585336784 (electronic bk.)
9780585336787 (electronic bk.)
0803294662
9780803294660
9780585336787 (electronic bk.)
0803294662
9780803294660
Imprint
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages)
Call Number
KF228.S78 T54 1995eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)45843592
Summary
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."
Note
"Bison books"--Spine
Originally published: Ponca chiefs. Boston : Lockwood, Brooks, 1880.
Originally published: Ponca chiefs. Boston : Lockwood, Brooks, 1880.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Dedication / Wendell Phillips
Introduction / Bright Eyes
I. Standing Bear's First Encounter with the Indian Ring
II. Standing Bear Finds a Friend in the Editor of a Western Paper
III. Flank Movement on the Indian Ring
IV. Mr. Hayt's Assault on Standing Bear, and the Reply the Old Chief Made
V. Omahas Come to Standing Bear's Aid
VI. Omahas Frightened at the Claims of the Commissioner
VII. Standing Bear's Religion
What Army Officers Think of Him
VIII. Standing Bear's Appeal to the Courts
IX. What the Attorneys Had to Say to the Courts
X. Standing Bear Released
Decision of Judge Elmer S. Dundy
XI. Order of Release
Standing Bear's Farewell Addresses
Indian Characteristics.
Introduction / Bright Eyes
I. Standing Bear's First Encounter with the Indian Ring
II. Standing Bear Finds a Friend in the Editor of a Western Paper
III. Flank Movement on the Indian Ring
IV. Mr. Hayt's Assault on Standing Bear, and the Reply the Old Chief Made
V. Omahas Come to Standing Bear's Aid
VI. Omahas Frightened at the Claims of the Commissioner
VII. Standing Bear's Religion
What Army Officers Think of Him
VIII. Standing Bear's Appeal to the Courts
IX. What the Attorneys Had to Say to the Courts
X. Standing Bear Released
Decision of Judge Elmer S. Dundy
XI. Order of Release
Standing Bear's Farewell Addresses
Indian Characteristics.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Available in Other Form
Print version: Tibbles, Thomas Henry, 1840-1928. Ponca chiefs. Standing Bear and the Ponca chiefs. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1995
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