Chief Standing Bear

ID: 219 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG1227.PH000002-000002 ~ Date: 1877
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Chief Standing Bear
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Photograph of Standing Bear, Chief of the Poncas. It was taken in November of 1877.

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By The Explore Nebraska History team
The land around the mouth of the Niobrara in northeastern Nebraska is the homeland of the Ponca Tribe. In 1868 the federal government signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie that transferred this land to the Sioux. The Poncas were forcibly removed to…