I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0312606389 ISBN13: 9780312606381 Release Date: January 2010 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Length: 280 Pages Weight: 0.36 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1" In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and te