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I Am a Man Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice

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ISBN-10: 0312606389

ISBN-13: 9780312606381

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joe Starita

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In 1877, Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from its lands in Nebraska and marched south to Indian Territory. "I Am a Man" tells the story of Standing Bear's efforts to reclaim his lands and rights, ending in his successful use of habeas corpus to gain access to the courts and ultimately his freedoms. This is a story of survival, of a people who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, alcoholism, and starvation. It explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, and the nature of democracy-issues that continue to resonate loudly in 21st century America. Starita's well researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction-…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Joe Starita was an investigative reporter and New York bureau chief forThe Miami Herald,where one of his stories was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is now a professor at the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism and the author ofThe Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge,an account of four generations of a Lakota Sioux family, that garnered a second Pulitzer Prize nomination, won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Award, and has been published in six foreign languages.

Acknowledgments
On the Banks of the Running Water
A Homeland Under Siege
The People Turn Their Faces South
Life and Death in the Warm Country
Going Home
The Color of Blood
A Ponca in Times Square
Eighting a Wrong
On the Land of the Fathers
Bibliography
Index