“All I want is to be a man and be treated as a man. I want to be able to go where I please, and not have a soldier follow me.”

About Standing Bear

Activist • American

Standing Bear was a chief of the Ponca, a Native American tribe located in the Niobrara River valley in Nebraska. In the 1870s, the U.S. government forcibly relocated the Ponca to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, a journey...