Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans Dwyer Lawrence A.
Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans Dwyer Lawrence A. Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. Standing Bear fought…
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Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans Dwyer Lawrence A.
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. Standing Bear fought for his freedom not with armed resistance but with bold action, strong testimony, and heartfelt eloquence. government's reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people.
In telling his story, Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom relates an unprecedented civil rights victory for Native Americans: for the first time, in 1879, a federal court declared a Native American to be a "person"--a human being with the right to file an action for a redress of grievances in a federal court, like every other person in the United States.Standing Bear's victory He knew he and his people had suffered a great injustice.Standing Bear wanted the right to live and die with his family on the beloved land of his Ponca ancestors, located within the Great Plains of Nebraska.