# Standing Bear Is a Person

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- Authors: [Stephen Dando-Collins](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-dando-collins)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-09-27

## Description

In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The compelling, behind-the-scenes story of that landmark court case, and the subsequent reverberations of the judge's ruling across nineteenth-century America is told in Stephen Dando-Collin's " brisk and evocative account" ( Kirkus ). It is a story of memorable Old West characters who joined to fight for Standing Bear and paved his way to the courthouse-the former Indian-fighting Army general who changed sides to stand with Standing Bear, the crusading Midwestern newspaper editor who had once been a gun-toting frontier preacher, and the " most beautiful Indian maiden of her time," Bright Eyes. Full of colourful characters, battles of legal wits, and the twists and turns of a cause in search of an audience, Standing Bear Is a Person is a captivating read.

## Editions

### Standing Bear Is a Person

- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-441-9
- Published: 2005-09-27
- Language: en_GB