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”
In the 1880s, John Elk, an Indigenous man living in Omaha, attempted to register to vote.
His case eventually became Elk v.
Wilkins and reached the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Elk argued that he had separated from his tribal relations, lived among non-Native citizens, and was therefore a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court rejected his claim in 1884.
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