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

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ISBN-10: 0312533047

ISBN-13: 9780312533045

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joe Starita

List price: $26.95
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In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears."I Am a Man"chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/20/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
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.