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’s story is famous enough to attract simplification but not famous enough for those simplifications to be universally recognized as wrong.

Several errors appear repeatedly.

The first is the claim that Standing Bear became “the first Native American citizen” because of his case.

That is not what the ruling did.

The second is the claim that Dundy’s decision granted citizenship to all Native Americans.

It did not.