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”

Officials would transfer them south.

For the bureaucracy, the incident could have been closed.

The reason it did not close was that Crook allowed the situation to reach someone outside military command.

That person was Thomas Henry Tibbles.

THE OFFICER WHO ARRESTED HIM DID NOT WANT THE STORY TO END WITH ANOTHER FORCED RETURN