Resources – Original

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

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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

H.R.5086 – To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.

Park Service Testimony Regarding H.R. 5086

Useful Links

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
National Park Service-National Trails System Information
National Trails Systems Act

41st Annual Great Plains Symposium Information

2015 Symposium Full Speaker Roster (PDF)