“My hand is not the color of your hand, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also will feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be of the same color as yours. I am a man. The same God made us both.”

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...