May 23, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
Please click here to be directed to a video of late Justice John Wright presiding over a recreation of the Trial of Standing Bear which took place in the Nebraska Supreme Court on April 8, 2017 as part of a Diverse Origins event for Cub Scouting and the 150th...
May 22, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
Two life-long visionaries who were instrumental in building some of Nebraska’s most treasured pathways were named Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s (RTC’s) 2017 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champions. Many across Nebraska credit Ross Greathouse and Lynn Lightner – who have...
May 3, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
The merits of Willa Cather and Chief Standing Bear — or, at least, the merits of installing sculptures of the two in the National Statuary Hall — will get the attention of the full Nebraska Legislature. The Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee on...
March 6, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
Very little of the great Missouri River looks as it did when Standing Bear and his Ponca band lived beside it, right there at the confluence of the “the Big Muddy” and the Niobrara. Four huge dams brought discipline to a madcap river far too unruly. But some...
March 1, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
As Nebraska marked its 151st birthday earlier this week, the state wrapped up a sesquicentennial celebration that highlighted the history and people within its borders. But the representation of that illustrious history within our nation’s capitol consists of...
February 24, 2018 | Chief Standing Bear
Until 2015, Larry Wright Jr. had never walked the abandoned Union Pacific railway that ran alongside the Big Blue River in southeastern Nebraska, a path similar to one his...
