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Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) ( Ponca official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ /Macunajin; [1] other spellings: Ma-chú-nu-zhe, Ma-chú-na-zhe or Mantcunanjin pronounced [mãtʃuꜜnãʒĩꜜ]) was a Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the m...
2014-Chief Standing Bear Non-Profit Established Trail Group Meeting at Omaha National Park Service Office . State Resolutions of Support 2013-LR 171 NOW, ... Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes. H.R. 984 National Historic Trail Feasibility Study (Passed 2015)
26 de sept. de 2019 · Standing Bear wrote to Ziolkowski after a sculpture he'd made won first prize at the New York World Fair in 1939. ... one non-Indian family has become millionaires off our people," he said.
13 de may. de 2024 · Standing Bear (born 1829?, near present-day Niobrara, Nebraska, U.S.—died 1908, near Niobrara) was a Ponca chief who advocated for the rights of Native Americans in the United States and successfully argued in court that Native people are “persons” under the U.S. Constitution.
29 de nov. de 2016 · A physical portion of the trail route running southward 20 miles from Beatrice to the Kansas border has been developed by the non-profit group, Nebraska Trails Foundation, as a hiker/biker trail and will soon be handed over for ownership to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, a reversal of the history of tribal lands being taken away from ...
6 de mar. de 2018 · If you question folks in town, you won’t be the first: No, no one knows where Bear Shield was buried, once Standing Bear, an actual, legal person by historic court decree, came back to the neighborhood in 1879. You may ask, but I’ll tell you the answer to your next question, too: No, one knows where to find the grave of Standing Bear either.
On June 3rd, 1948, motioning toward Thunderhead Mountain, Standing Bear conveyed to those in attendance at the dedication ceremony that the newly-initiated Memorial would serve to create cross-cultural understanding and to mend relations between Natives and non-Natives – an especially powerful sentiment coming from a man who spent his entire ...
