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.

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 Friday ...

Members of the Ponca delegation pose with the repatriated pipe tomahawk. Courtesy of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska When Standing Bear, chief of the Ponca Tribe, won a landmark 1879 court case affirming ...

Chief Standing Bear's Tomahawk, on view in the Peabody Museum (via Wikimedia Commons) Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts announced plans to ...

BAFTA nominee Chaske Spencer is set to take on the powerful role of Standing Bear, a pivotal Native American civil rights leader, in a new historical drama. It’s about time this story got the epic ...

An archival photo of Standing Bear holding the tomahawk that is currently at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and a close up of the tomahawk on display at the Peabody ...

Chief Standing Bear’s lawsuit in 1879 ensured that Native Americans would be considered persons with inherent rights under the law. By Eduardo Medina See more of our coverage in your search ...