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”

It did not create universal Native voting rights.

It did not erase the legal existence of tribal nations.

It did not abolish reservations.

It did not strike down the whole architecture of federal Indian law.

It did not return all Ponca land.

And it did not end the federal government’s capacity to pursue assimilationist policies.