STANDING BEAR WAS ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO GO HOME – THEN HIS CASE FORCED A U.S. COURT TO DECIDE IF A NATIVE MAN WAS A “PERSON”

Their eventual arrival among Omaha relatives and allies did not make them safe.

The federal government still considered the group to have left without authorization.

The Secretary of the Interior’s department wanted them returned to Indian Territory.

The Army became the instrument for carrying out that order.

That is how General George Crook entered the story.

Crook was no outsider to the U.S. military campaigns of the West.