Elmer Scipio Dundy
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Elmer Scipio Dundy was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. He was the namesake of Dundy County, Nebraska.
Elmer Scipio Dundy
Dundy, c. 1895.
Ponca
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The Ponca people are a nation primarily located in the Great Plains of North America that share a common Ponca culture, history, and language, identified with two Indigenous nations: the Ponca Tribe o
Elmer Scipio Dundy
…Dundy was the longest-serving judge appointed by Johnson. On May 12, 1879, Dundy ruled in the case Standing Bear v. Crook that Standing Bear and other Ponca were "people" who able to bring petitions for habeas corpus, and that Indians who had severed their relationships with their tribes could not be ordered…
Thomas Cry (Moni Chaki), Ponca, Nebraska, 1898
Two Ponca men display Chief Standing Bear's pipe tomahawk at the Nebraska State Capitol