“I have looked to the white man for help, and I have been told that I am not a man. I am a savage, and have no rights.”

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...