Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice: Joe Starita at TEDxOmaha

[@1shadowfx]

Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) has written an excellent play "Waaxe's Law," which explores the journey of Standing Bear as the first Native American legally recognized "a person under the law." This TEDx Talk is a wonderful introduction and tribute to the Ponca and the family of Standing Bear. Thank you Joe Starita.

[@steff8075]

Thank you Joe Starita for such a moving story that so many people need to hear. I will try my best to share this story in links to as many places I can. I purchased your first book many years ago and felt the passion you have and still have for people who we had so much to learn from.

[@eileenryan6750]

Steff I feel we need

[@eileenryan6750]

After reading story book about my revered Chief Standing Bear I feel that I know this man very well and I Revere him and pray to him when I'm having trouble at work and chief Standing Bear always helps me out as well as well as God and Jesus Christ and I want to thank Professor starita introducing me to this wonderful and beautiful the greatest ending Chief ever Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation

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P o n c a p o w e r

[@eileenryan6750]

Stuff I will now try and finish my sentence because Alexa is kind of a snot all day but I feel we need to have a national and federal holiday for all Native American tribes and stuff I think a good table house about May 12th I just picked that out of my ear May 12th because being Native American Indians are so connected with nature May 12th is like the beginning of Spring it is the start of new new babies animal babies

[@eileenryan6750]

Thank you Professor Street of introducing me to Ponca Chief Standing Bear about 10 years ago the story is so beautiful and touching I want to do everything I can for my Ponca people and for all Native American Indians I also feel know we need this country needs to have a federal and national holiday for all Native American Indians I think May 12th would be a good date for

[@mjack19]

In 2010 as I was walking in meditation, Chief Standing Bear whom I call Grandfather came to me and gave me my Indian Name Little Arrow and he is one of my guides now….I asked him earlier if he was near me and here is this story. I want to thank-you…I found out about him when he first began to speak to me and knew how wonderful he was…Namaste, Little Arrow aka mjack19

[@erikae3024]

I am connected to the white buffalo calf woman

[@clairewee9715]

Thank you for this post. I appreciate you.

[@proudSomalisis]

I am in Somalia and i enjoyed watching this.

[@lamayoung9187]

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[@freakyears956]

Mister star Rita pardon my phone it gets my words discombobulated so I'm very sorry that your name came out wrong. I've been trying for over 10 years a federal and state holiday for all Native Americans after all they are the first people of this country! I have read your book I am a man quite a few times and I love it! You did a wonderful job interested in introducing our repair Chief Standing Bear two people who read about him and I thank you very very much. Now it's a forest trying to get a federal holiday from Native American Indians on May 12th no one is listening to me so I'm sorry sir I give up I wave the white flag! I hear also channels I said all sorts of news about the covid-19 about the African Americans the Latinos the whites but Asians I don't hear anything about Native American Indians! The only thing I heard about Native American Indians was that on an Apple home Indian reservation I said Navajo Indian Reservation there's no running water so how could these poor people wash their hands all the time? I am giving up I am very sorry nobody's listening to me in Nebraska Oklahoma or anywhere and I'm tired of it I am tired of being tired! I had lung cancer a year-and-a-half ago I think it came back and now I just can't do anything I told I give up. I give up on everything I'm very sorry! I feel nobody cares about Chief Standing Bear have a good day and stay healthy mr. Star Rita.

[@earlburley]

Great story, however there are additional sources of information soon to be available which will recast this story.

[@eileenryan6750]

I want to finish my story but stand the bear when he brought his son bear shield back to the Niagara Bank achieve stand the bed and 30 other Ponca actually walked 1000 miles

[@eileenryan6750]

I will try again I said niobrara the niobrara in Nebraska got it

[@yeetonyt6762]

Hi

[@CALXB4YOU]

whos here from metro? lol

[@tsims093]

Great book. Terrible story.

[@eileenryan6750]

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P o n c a p o w e r

[@eileenryan6750]

Thank wakanda for chief Standing Bear Chief Standing Bear is the greatest Indian Chief and Indian person ever

[@eileenryan6750]

Ponca Chief Standing Bear and the rest of the tribe they walk 500 miles from the library to the Indian Territory which is today Oklahoma but then when Chief standing Bear's son dashield passed away this beautiful father made I promise to his son

[@isissucks9622]

Thankyoufallettinmebeyofreind