Standing Bear

(1829-1908) lived near Niobrara, Knox County. Ponca tribal leader, advocate of Native American rights, a legal decision in an Omaha, Nebraska courtroom in 1879 declared that Native Americans possess civil rights, a new bridge over the Missouri River between Niobrara and Springfield, South Dakota named after Standing Bear in 1998. Consult Sunday / Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, April 29, 1979, pp. 18-22 and Notable Native Americans (Gale 1995) 415-417.

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