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The Trial Of Standing Bear
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
"My hand is not the same color as yours.
But if you pierce it, I shall feel the pain.
The blood will be the same color. We are men.
The same God made us. All I ask is what is mine,
My land, My freedom,
My dignity as a man."
This is the poignant story of a Ponca Chief's defiant stand against the U.S. government and the 1879 legal battle which established for the first time that “An Indian is a person within the meaning of the law.”
