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House honors Chief Standing Bear
Standing Bear
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Some 100 years after his death, Ponca Chief Standing Bear has been honored by the U.S. House of Representatives. Nebraska 1st District Representative Jeff Fortenberry introduced a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Standing Bear, calling the chief one of the United States' first civil rights leaders. In January 1879, Standing Bear and 30 followers left Oklahoma, where the Ponca had been forcibly moved two years earlier. When it became known the chief planned to return home to Nebraska, he was arrested and put on trial. A federal judge recognized Standing Bear as a human under the law and freed him, a landmark decision that secured constitutional rights for all American Indians.

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