you’ve got to find something harsher because the white man would follow and farm.” Standing Bear said one of the tribe’s prophets said there would be something underground that would help ...

By Eduardo Medina Chief Standing Bear, whose 1879 lawsuit and celebrated “I Am a Man” courtroom speech ... on the stamp was based on a black-and-white photograph taken in 1877.

A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his ...

Starita, whose book about Chief Standing Bear, “I Am a Man,” led to the filming of a ... of tourists from Colorado’s Front ...

“It’s remarkable, that the story of Nebraska Native American civil rights leader Chief Standing Bear has progressed from a native man being considered ... based on a black and white photograph ...