Product Overview
When, in 1879, a small band of Poncas defied the federal government by leaving their reservation and returning to their ancestral home, the ensuing suit by their chief, Standing Bear, first established Indians as persons within the meaning of the law. This new edition of the classic eyewitness account of the first court case in which Indians successfully challenged the federal government's complete authority over them also surveys the 'Indian question' and traces the later careers of Standing Bear and Thomas Henry Tibbles and compares Tibble's three accounts of the trial
