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”

Standing Bear had left.

The Army had found him.

The next administrative step would have been to send him back.

Instead, something unexpected happened.

Crook sympathized with the people he had been ordered to detain.

Omaha journalist Thomas Henry Tibbles learned of the case and began publicizing it.