The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform

by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025202852X
• ISBN13: 9780252028526
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"