Press Releases
Fortenberry Legislation to Designate Standing Bear Trail Passes Committee
Documents
Reports of Agents in Indian Territory, 1877 (Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior of the Operations of the Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1877–Washington: Government Printing Office. 1877)
Reports of Agents in Indian Territory, 1878 (Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1878–Washington: Government Printing Office. 1878)
Reports of Agents in Indian Territory, 1878 – The Poncas (Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1878–Washington: Government Printing Office. 1878)
Reports of Agents in Indian Territory, 1879 (Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1879–Washington: Government Printing Office. 1879)
Reports of Agents in Indian Territory, 1879-The Poncas (Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1879–Washington: Government Printing Office. 1879)
Secretary Schurz. Reply of the Boston Committee (Source: Secretary Schurz, Reply of the Boston, Massachusetts Committtee on the Ponca Indians, Governor John D. Long, Chairman, Misrepresentations Corrected and Important Facts Presented, 1881)
The Story of Chief Standing Bear
The War Bonnet – courtesy of the Historical Society
U.S. District Court Trial Records
The following records may not be used, shared or republished without the following citation:
Source: National Archives at Kansas City
Record Group 21, Records of the District Courts of the U.S.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Omaha Division of the District of Nebraska
Chancery, Criminal, Equity and Law Case Files, 1867-1911
ARC Identifier 1105112
Case #136E, U.S. ex. Rel Standing Bear v. George Crook
Publications
John E. Carter, Photographers and Plains Indians. NEBRASKAland Magazine, November 2014, p16
An Omaha ‘Princess’ in Kilwinning (By Tom F. Cunningham, Courtesy of The English Westerners’ Society)
Trail Legislation
Park Service Testimony Regarding H.R. 5086
Useful Links
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
National Park Service-National Trails System Information
National Trails Systems Act