Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom

Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom

The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans

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Publisher Description

2023 Nebraska Book Award

Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing Bear fought for his freedom not through armed resistance but with bold action, strong testimony, and heartfelt eloquence. 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. 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 in Standing Bear v. Crook began a national movement of reforming Native American rights—albeit a slow one. Because of the courage and leadership of Chief Standing Bear, the pervasive spirit of indifference of most Americans toward Native Americans was disrupted by this historic decision. America would never be the same.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2022
1 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
232
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bison Books
SELLER
The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
SIZE
2.8
MB

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