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C'RONA Pandemic Comics (Paperback)
Bob Hall, Judy Diamond, Liz Vanwormer, Judi M. Gaiashkibos
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C'RONA Pandemic Comics is a collection of short comics and essays
developed to help youth understand the complexities of living
through a viral pandemic. Each focuses on a different theme: the
biology of the COVID-19 virus; the relationship of wild animals,
particularly bats, to the pandemic; and the impact of the pandemic
on tribal communities. Created by a group of artists, educators,
tribe members, and scientists, this comic book provides an engaging
way to learn about the COVID-19 pandemic from a cast of fictional
characters-a parrot, a fox, a goat, a bat, a mouse, a coyote, and a
ghost.
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving
the U.S. government's reservation, without its permission, for the
love of his son and his people. Standing Bear fought for his
freedom not through armed resistance but with bold action, strong
testimony, and heartfelt eloquence. He knew he and his people had
suffered a great injustice. Standing Bear wanted the right to live
and die with his family on the beloved land of his Ponca ancestors,
located within the Great Plains of Nebraska. In telling his story,
Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom relates an unprecedented civil
rights victory for Native Americans: for the first time, in 1879, a
federal court declared a Native American to be a "person"-a human
being with the right to file an action for a redress of grievances
in a federal court, like every other person in the United States.
Standing Bear's victory in Standing Bear v. Crook began a national
movement of reforming Native American rights-albeit a slow one.
Because of the courage and leadership of Chief Standing Bear, the
pervasive spirit of indifference of most Americans toward Native
Americans was disrupted by this historic decision. America would
never be the same.
The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their
misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, "The Ponca Tribe" is
still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the
upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they
built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted buffalo.
James H. Howard considers their historic situation in present-day
South Dakota and Nebraska, their trade with Europeans and relations
with the U.S. government, and, finally, their loss of land along
the Niobrara River and forced removal to Indian Territory.
The tragic events surrounding the 1877 removal, culminating in the
arrest and trial of Chief Standing Bear, are only part of the Ponca
story. Howard, a respected ethnologist, traces the tribe's origins
and early history. Aided by Ponca informants, he presents their way
of life in his descriptions of Ponca lodgings, arts and crafts,
clothing and ornaments, food, tools and weapons, dogs and horses,
kinship system, governance, sexual practices, and religious
ceremonies and dances. He tells what is known about a proud (and
ultimately divided) tribe that was led down a "trail of
tears."
"" "The Ponca Tribe" was originally published in 1965 as a bulletin
of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American
Ethnology.
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