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Standing Bear Is A Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice: On the first day of May, 1879, an unprecedented legal hearing in federal court began in Omaha, Nebraska. Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court to prove that he was a person in the eyes of the law.
Earlier, Standing Bear had been arrested for refusing the government's forced eviction from his tribal land. Now, under a writ of habeas corpus, he was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed – the right to be recognized legally as a human being.
This is the compelling behind-the-scenes story of the landmark court case, and how the judge's ruling reverberated across nineteenth-century America all the way to the White House. It is also a story of the memorable Old West characters who took up Standing Bear's cause – the former Indian-fighting army general who changed sides to support Standing Bear, the crusading Midwestern newspaper editor who had once been a gun-toting frontier preacher, the young defense lawyer who had a brilliant idea he didn't believe would work, the tough but legal-minded judge who decided the case, and the “most beautiful Indian maiden of her time,” Bright Eyes, who became Standing Bear's national spokesperson.
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| Weight: | 0.52 kg |
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CDN$ 36.95 (US$ 35.96) |
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| ISBN-10: | 030681370X |
| ISBN-13/EAN: | 9780306813702 |
| Author: | Dando-Collins, Stephen |
| Publisher: | Perseus Books Group
Cambridge, MA |
| Publication Date: | 10/2004 |
| Pages: | 259 pages |
| Size/Dimensions: | 0.5 x 6.25 x 9.25 inches |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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