Research Catalog

Title

The Standing Bear controversy : prelude to Indian reform / Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt.

Author

Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Lowitt, Richard, 1922-

Description

x, 211 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

• "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 Standing Bear, a Ponca chief, 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 all Native Americans, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement"--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc
• Ponca Indians > Relocation
• Standing Bear, 1829?-1908

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-203) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- pt. 2. Introduction -- 1. The Ponca Chief's journey to the Indian Territory -- 2. Forced removal -- 3. Standing Bear flees -- 4. Standing Bear v. Crook -- 5. The tour -- pt. 2. Introduction-- 6. Schurz defines his position and Dawes disagrees -- 7. Expanding the parameters -- 8. concluded but not resolved -- 9. Seeking a better way -- Conclusion.

ISBN

025202852X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002155077

OCLC

51178111

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library