Standing Bear's Footsteps / producer, director, writer, Christine Mohanna Lesiak ; associate producer, Princella Parker ; produced by NET Television.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Lesiak, Christine, producer, director, screenwriter.

Alexander Street Press.

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (Organization), production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standing Bear, 1829?-1908.

Standing Bear.

Indians of North America--Civil rights.

History.

Ponca Indians.

United States.

Ponca Indians--History.

Indians of North America--Civil rights--United States--History.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : Vision Maker Media, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In 1877, the Ponca people were exiled from their Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. To honor his dying son's last wish to be buried in his homeland, Chief Standing Bear set off on a grueling, six-hundred-mile journey home. Captured en-route, Standing Bear sued a famous U.S. army general for his freedom--choosing to fight injustice not with weapons, but with words. The Chief stood before the court to prove that an Indian was a person under the law. The story quickly made newspaper headlines--attracting powerful allies, as well as enemies.This high definition documentary weaves interviews, re-creations and present-day scenes to tell a story about human rights--one that resonates powerfully in the present. "I am a man," Chief Standing Bear said at his trial. "The same God made us both."

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).

OCLC:

954043150

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.