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 danger is remembering Standing Bear’s dignity while forgetting what required him to prove it in court.
The real story is not that the United States eventually honored him.
The real story is that federal policy first removed his people, his family suffered deaths, he was arrested for returning home, and only then did the legal system recognize a limit on the government’s power to hold him.
The honor came later.
The injustice came first.
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