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When his dying son asks to be buried in the land of his fathers, Standing Bear, chief of the Poncas, knows what he has to do. He and some other members of his tribe leave the reservation and walk hundreds of miles back home. They know they're acting against U.S. government regulations...
This is the dramatic story of the first Indian case to appear before a U.S. court of law in 1879.
When his dying son asks to be buried in the land of his fathers, Standing Bear, chief of the Poncas, knows what he has to do. He and some other members of his tribe leave the reservation and walk hundreds of miles back home. They know they're acting against U.S. government regulations...
This is the dramatic story of the first Indian case to appear before a U.S. court of law in 1879.
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