The Ponca Chiefs: An Account of the Trial of Standing Bear

By Thomas Henry Tibbles

Book Overview

Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803257635
• ISBN13: 9780803257634
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Superb

A very short, readable, poignant book. It chronicles a lawsuit filed by the Ponca Indians against the federal government in Nebraska in the 1870's. Nearly all of the text is contemporary material. The outcome of the trial was a triumph for American justice. For those of us whose notions of the settlement of the west are formed mainly by images of Colonel Custer, old 50's movies with battles between calvary and Indians, and the like, the narratives in this true story are full of surprises.