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Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) (Ponca official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ/Macunajin; 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 ...
Standing Bear, a tribal leader, protested his tribe's eviction. Federal troops enforced the removal orders, with the result that the Poncas arrived in Indian Territory in the summer of 1878. Discouraged, homesick and forlorn, the Poncas found themselves on the lands of strangers, in the middle of a hot summer, with no crops or prospects for any ...
Oct 29, 2020 · The remarkable story of Chief Standing Bear, who in 1879 persuaded a federal judge to recognize Native Americans as persons with the right to sue for their freedom, established him as one of the nation’s earliest civil rights heroes.
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.
Nov 21, 2019 · Chief Standing Bear (Ma-chú-nu-zhe) was the leader of a band of about 82 Ponca people, living near the banks of the Niobrara River. With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Eastern farmers were eyeing the cheap land that the government was planning to put on offer.
Sep 25, 2019 · The chief’s efforts to return his son’s body to their ancestral lands transformed him into a civil rights icon. And now, as Gillian Brockell reports for the Washington Post, Standing Bear has...
Standing Bear was born on Ponca land, near the mouth of the Niobrara, in what is now Nebraska, around 1834. (Some sources give his birth year as 1829.) His Indian name was “Ma-chu-nah-zah.” Because he showed leadership abilities, he became a chief at an early age.
