Standing Bear with Wife and Child

ID: 458 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2066.PH000005-000002 ~ Date: 1875 circa
This file appears in: Standing Bear and the Ponca Tribe
Standing Bear with Wife and Child
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Portrait of Standing Bear, standing holding a tomahawk. His wife and child seated next to him.

This file appears in: Standing Bear and the Ponca Tribe

By The Explore Nebraska History team
In 1877 the Ponca Tribe and Chief Standing Bear were forced from their Nebraska homeland along the Niobrara River to an Oklahoma reservation. Hardships followed them during the more than 500-mile trek. Standing Bear’s daughter Prairie Flower died…