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The 63 acres (25 ha) Standing Bear Park [19] in Ponca City, Oklahoma was named in his honor. It is the site of the Standing Bear Museum and Education Center, as well as a 22 feet (6.7 m) high bronze statue of the chief. In 1977, Standing Bear was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. [20] [21] In 1977, Standing Bear Lake opened.
Chief Standing Bear was among those who had most vehemently protested the tribe's removal. When his eldest son, Bear Shield, lay on his deathbed, Standing Bear promised to have him buried on the tribe's ancestral lands. In order to carry out his promise, Standing Bear left the reservation in Oklahoma and traveled back toward the Ponca homelands.
George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 – March 21, 1890) [1] [2] [3] was a career United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.He is best known for commanding U.S. forces in the 1886 campaign that led to the defeat of the Apache leader Geronimo.
The US District Court judge's decision in Standing Bear v. Crook (1879) established the right of Indian people to exercise habeas corpus and their legal status as citizens under US law. [21] [2] [15] White Eagle, a principal Ponca chief, settled on a 101,000-acre (410 km 2) reservation in what would later be organized as Kay and Noble counties ...
In 2019, Nebraska placed a portrait statue of Chief Standing Bear in the Capitol Building’s National Statuary Hall. Standing Bear, of the Ponca tribe, successfully argued in an 1879 court case ...
The bridge is named for Standing Bear, a Ponca chief born and buried nearby, who was the plaintiff in Standing Bear v. Crook, a landmark 1879 U.S. District Court case that established the legal rights of Native Americans to move about freely.
Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state leaders took another step Thursday to honor the story of Chief Standing Bear, dedicating a building in the shadow of the State Capitol in his honor.
Fort Omaha was the site where Chief Standing Bear was held prior to the 1879 trial of Standing Bear v. Crook. Standing Bear, a Ponca chief, successfully argued in the U.S. District Court that Native Americans were "persons within the meaning of the law" and had rights of citizenship. During the trial, Standing Bear was assisted by Susette ...