March 31, 2017 | Chief Standing Bear, Historic Sites, The Trail Ahead
Chief Standing Bear Statue will be on display at the Jayne Snyder Trails Center (228 N 21st St, Lincoln, NE 68503), public viewing hours 1pm- 4pm. You can meet Sculptor Ben Victor, while he works on this work of art. For groups larger than 10 or visits outside of...
August 6, 2015 | Chief Standing Bear, The Trail Ahead
The transfer of ownership to the Ponca Tribe for a 19.5-mile stretch of the Homestead Trail is the perfect culmination to the long effort to make the trail from Lincoln to the Kansas border a reality. Most importantly, the stretch of trail is believed to be close to...
August 5, 2015 | The Trail Ahead
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau LINCOLN — The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska will soon take ownership of a ribbon of land that is tightly braided into the tribe’s ancestral and cultural identity. During a ceremony Sunday at their offices in Lincoln, tribal leaders signed...
January 5, 2015 | Chief Standing Bear, The Trail Ahead
By NATASHA RAUSCH NIOBRARA — The Ponca Tribe is growing and expanding — rapidly and impressively. The tribe, which has its headquarters here, has come a long way since 1964, when it was existence was officially terminated by the federal government, along with 109...
October 6, 2014 | Chief Standing Bear, The Trail Ahead
By: U.S. Senator Deb Fischer Native Americans are an important part of our state’s rich cultural heritage. For thousands of years, several different tribes – descendants of the Plains Indians—inhabited the land that is now within our state boundaries. One of...
September 2, 2014 | Chief Standing Bear, The Trail Ahead
Mike Johanns Nebraska View An imprisoned Native American chief, an unlikely cadre of Nebraskans and a harrowing journey led to one of America’s earliest civil rights victories 135 years ago. In an Omaha courtroom, Ponca Chief Standing Bear argued that Native Americans...
