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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
Thomas Cry (Moni Chaki), Ponca, Nebraska, 1898
Two Ponca men display Chief Standing Bear's pipe tomahawk at the Nebraska State Capitol
Standing Bear
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Standing Bear 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 meaning of the law
Ponca
…splintering of the nation. In 1879, two years after the removal, a small portion of the Ponca elected to return to Nebraska in 1879. This group, led by Standing Bear, ultimately gave rise to the present-day Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. Two years later, the majority of the Ponca were given the opportunity to return to…
Standing Bear, Zazette Primeaux Bear, and child
A bust of Standing Bear, created by Ted Long in 1980 to commemorate Standing Bear being a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge