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”

The fundamental issue — whether federal power would recognize or deny Native political existence and rights — continued.

A STATUE IN THE U.S. CAPITOL COMPLETED ANOTHER STRANGE REVERSAL

Long after his death, Standing Bear entered a federal space in a form no one in the 1879 courtroom could have predicted.

Nebraska chose him to represent the state in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S.

Capitol.