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Bookmark or Share- Chief Standing Bear: A Hero of Native American Civil RightsPublished onOctober 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.
- Chief Standing Bear, Who Fought for Native American Freedoms, Is ...SMART NEWS. Chief Standing Bear, Who Fought for Native American Freedoms, Is Honored With a Statue in the Capitol. ‘That hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain,’...
- Standing Bear - WikipediaStanding Bear (c. 1829–1908) ( Ponca official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ /Macunajin; [1] 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 "persons within the m...
- About - Chief Standing BearAbout - Chief Standing Bear. The story of one man’s struggle to gain equality and justice. From his birth on the banks of the Niobrara River in Nebraska until his death in 1908, Chief Standing Bear spent his life in a constant struggle to gain equality and justice for our nation’s Native Americans.
- Chief Henry Standing Bear : Crazy Horse Memorial®Brule Lakota Henry Standing Bear was born near Pierre, South Dakota, along the Missouri River – probably in 1874. In his early teens, Standing Bear became one of the first Native Americans to attend Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania where he took on the name of "Henry".
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