The release comes 146 years after the Army forced him and about 700 other members of the tribe to leave their homeland in Nebraska and walk 600 miles to Oklahoma.

A U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp now celebrates the Ponca chief, whose lawsuit led to a 1879 ruling that determined Native Americans were people with inherent rights under the law.

IT IN. CHIEF STANDING BEAR WAS ONCE NOT EVEN RECOGNIZED AS A PERSON BY THE U.S GOVERNMENT. NOW, 144 YEARS LATER, HIS FACE IS ON THE NEWEST STAMP. KETV, NEWSWATCH SEVEN ANDREW OZAKI HAS THE ...

The US Postal Service is honoring Chief Standing Bear, the celebrated Ponca leader who successfully argued for Native Americans to be recognized as people in the eyes of the law, on a Forever stamp.

The release of the stamp of Chief Standing Bear comes 146 years after the Army forced him and about 700 other members of the Ponca tribe to leave their homeland in northeast Nebraska and walk 600 ...

Chief Standing Bear, whose 1879 lawsuit and celebrated “I Am a Man” courtroom speech led to the recognition of Native American legal rights, was honored on Friday with a Forever stamp ...

Chief Standing Bear, whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law, is on a new postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service released a Forever stamp on ...

A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his p ...