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The Standing Bear Controversy - PRELUDE TO INDIAN REFORM (Hardcover, New)
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The Standing Bear Controversy - PRELUDE TO INDIAN REFORM (Hardcover, New)
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In the spring of 1877 government officials forcibly removed members
of the Ponca tribe from their homelands in the southeastern corner
of Dakota territory, relocating them in the Indian Territory in
Oklahoma. When Ponca Chief Standing Bear attempted to lead a group
of his people home he was arrested, detained, and put on trial. In
this book Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt examine how the
national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as
well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight
of his tribe, and of tribespeople across America, to the attention
of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the
nineteenth-century Indian reform movement. As the authors show, the
eventual ramifications of the removal, flight, and trial of
Standing Bear were extensive, and included the rise of an organized
humanitarian reform movement, significant changes in the
administration of Indian affairs, and the passage of the General
Allotment Act in 1887. This is the first full-length study of the
Standing Bear trial and its consequences, and Mathes and Lowitt
draw on a vast array of manuscript, diary, and journalistic sources
in order to chronicle the events of 1877, as well as the effect the
trial had on broader American popular opinion, on the federal
government, and finally on the Native American population as a
whole.
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