#ponca tribe of oklahoma

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Rant(?)

"You need to calm down, Rian. It's not like it's an attack on you."

I am not calming down until I find out who deleted Casey Camp-Horinek's Wikipedia page, and until I find out who removed Carter Camp from the AIM and Wounded Knee Occupation articles.

I have every right to be pissed about this, especially since my grandmother is part of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.

[definitely-totally-croatia]

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[mancalledhoss]

Ponca Chief Standing Bear: 1879 the Ponca were forcibly removed from their homeland in northeastern Nebraska and marched to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Many died along the way, including Standing Bear’s daughter, and, upon arrival, his son would also die. Promising to honor his son’s dying wish to be buried in his homeland, Standing Bear and a small band of his men began the arduous journey home to bury his son. They realized that they were doing so in defiance of orders not to leave the reservation. They were soon arrested and about to be returned to Indian Territory when their plight was publicized in the Omaha Daily Herald.

Standing Bear was held for trial at a fort near Omaha. The outcome was that the Indian was declared a “person” according to law and that Standing Bear and his followers were free to return to their homeland. However, as all of the Tribe’s land had been taken from them, they had no home to return to. Eventually, 26,000 acres in Knox County would be restored to them.

[meret118]

Chief Standing Bear, whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law, is on a new postage stamp.

The U.S. Postal Service released a Forever stamp on Friday honoring the Ponca tribe chief, a civil rights icon known for his "I Am a Man" speech.

The stamp's release comes 146 years after the U.S. Army forcibly removed Chief Standing Bear and some 700 other members of the tribe from their homeland in northeast Nebraska. Standing Bear's son was among those who died of hunger and disease after the tribe's 600-mile journey on foot to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

When Standing Bear made the perilous trip back to Nebraska to honor his son with a burial in the tribe's homeland in 1879, he was arrested and imprisoned at Fort Omaha.

His arrest was the catalyst for a lawsuit that led to an 1879 ruling that determined a Native American was a person under the law with an inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

I’m a Native American Ghost Buster! - My Paranormal Experience Episode 98

Tonight’s guest, Pete Buffalohead, is a member of the Ponca Tribe, of Oklahoma, who was born with gifts very few people possess. Pete can see and interact with spirits that most people don’t know are there. At first glance, it might seem like having gifts like that would be convenient. Pete would be the first to tell you, however, that there are negative things that come along with having gifts like that. If you listen to tonight’s show, you’ll hear several of the paranormal experiences he’s had, over the years.

Some of them were pretty mild, while others were terrifying. One experience he had, when he was a kid, was so over the top that his mother refused to allow him to be alone in their house! We hope you’ll tune in and listen to Pete chronicle some of the things that have happened to him.

If you do, you might not ever be so comfortable being in the dark ever again. If you’ve had a paranormal experience and would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://www.MyParaEx.com and let us know.

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Map of part of Indian Territory and the State of Kansas, 6/14/1887. 

The area in the center of the map was opened to white settlers two years later, and would become Oklahoma City. 

Series: Central Map File, 1824 - 1960

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999

Image description: [top half of map] Map covering Oklahoma from north to south borders, and about wide enough to cover modern Oklahoma City. The map shows streams, railroads, smaller towns, Fort Reno, and locations of the lands of various Native American tribes, including the Nez Perce, Ponca, “Otoes and Missouras,” Iowas, Kickapoos, Pottawatomies, and the Chickasaw Nation.

Image description: [bottom half of map] Map covering Oklahoma from north to south borders, and about wide enough to cover modern Oklahoma City. The map shows streams, railroads, smaller towns, Fort Reno, and locations of the lands of various Native American tribes, including the Nez Perce, Ponca, “Otoes and Missouras,” Iowas, Kickapoos, Pottawatomies, and the Chickasaw Nation.

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5 new castings in Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series have been announced!

Elizabeth Yu is Princess Azula

In ATLA Book One: Water, Azula appears in flashbacks and the 2005 cartoon equivalent of a post-credits scene at the end of the season. She becomes a main player from Book 2 onwards. In the live-action reimagining, her role in Season 1, which covers Book 1, could be expanded. This is her first big role. She will also appear in All My Love and an upcoming untitled Ray Romano movie.

Maria Zhang is Suki

She's approx. 18-19 years old and also a newcomer! She's known for All I Ever Wanted and Continuum.

Tamlyn Tomita is Suki’s mother Yukari, a new character!

This is our first NEW CHARACTER! Yukari is Suki's mother, “the fiercely protective mayor of her small village on Kyoshi Island.” This is most likely a similar role that Oyaji, the leader of Suki's village in the original animated ATLA played, but we don't know if she's replacing him or if he's still also there too.

Tamlyn Tomita has an epic career, including the role of Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and Cobra Kai (2021), as well as The Day After Tomorrow (2004), the Stargate franchise, Teen Wolf, How to Get Away With Murder, The Good Doctor, and The Man in the High Castle.

Yvonne Chapman is Avatar Kyoshi

She is an actor, writer, and director best known for her acting roles in Family Law and Kung Fu.

Casey Camp-Horinek is Kanna (Gran Gran)

She is a Tribal Councilwoman, Elder, and Matriarch of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, and Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Ponca Pa-tha-ta, Woman’s Scalp Dance Society.

As an actor, she is best known for Barking Water (2009) and Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu).

[fatehbaz]

In 1982, a man named David Grundman shot a twenty-seven-foot-tall saguaro cactus. His reason remains unarticulated in the Arizona Republic article that recounts the crime, but we know that Grundman managed to get off two blasts from his sixteen-gauge shotgun before the cactus enacted its revenge: twenty-three feet of its central column -- thousands of pounds of cactus flesh -- fell atop his body. According to witnesses, he had only gotten halfway through the word “timber!” Grundman was dead before authorities arrived on the scene, though he lives on now as the subject of a sardonic country ballad: “Saguaro / A menace to the west,” as the chorus goes. [...] Nonhuman entities have long been involved in lawsuits. In 1403, for example, a pig was put on trial in France for murder. In 1545, wine growers in Saint-Julien sued weevils for attacking their vines. In 1659, an Italian politician sued the region’s caterpillars, which, per the complaint, had engaged in trespass as they gorged on local gardens. Note that these lawsuits targeted animals. The idea that some nonhuman entity might do the suing is much more recent. [...] Last April [2021] five waterways in Florida became the first natural entities to sue in US court to enforce their legal rights. This string of lakes had been granted legal personhood through an amendment [...] approved in November 2020. [...] In an Indigenous context, the idea that nature has rights is not odd at all. [...] This is not to suggest that the rights-of-nature concept is supported by every Indigenous thinker. The idea raises thorny spiritual and cultural questions, to say nothing of legal complications. [...] Still, Indigenous leadership has been key in many rights-of-nature breakthroughs. Several US tribes (the Ponca of Oklahoma, Yurok, and Menominee) have passed rights-of-nature laws, including a 2018 resolution in which the White Earth Band of Ojibwe granted legal personhood to manoomin, or wild rice, a sacred food. Last August [2021], manoomin sued Minnesota’s department of natural resources, objecting to the construction of an oil pipeline [...]. The greatest successes [...] [include] notably a provision in the 2008 Ecuador Constitution that granted rights to nature broadly, invoking the Indigenous Andean concept of “Pachamama.” Late last year [2021], Ecuador’s highest court ruled that the provision forbids mining and other extractive activities in a protected forest ecosystem.

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Text by: Boyce Upholt. “Saguaro, Free of the Earth.” Emergence. 31 March 2022.

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A Harvard University museum has agreed to return to the Ponca people a ceremonial tomahawk that once belonged to Standing Bear. Once finalized, the move, which was requested by descendants of the legendary Ponca chief, as well as tribal leadership and the Nebraska Legislature, will mark the homecoming of an important part of Ponca history. The saga also could serve as an example of a nonconfrontational process for returning native belongings, according to members of the Ponca Tribe. “I think this could be an example for sure,” said Larry Wright Jr., chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and a participant in the repatriation discussions. The Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma also are involved in the repatriation talks.

The tribes requested that they be allowed to inspect the tomahawk, two other items that once belonged to Standing Bear and funerary objects that once belonged to the Ponca. That visit is tentatively planned for September.

While museums serve an important role in preserving and spreading awareness of history, the tomahawk belongs with the Ponca people in Nebraska, said [Tom] Brewer, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. “It’s a priceless item coming back to the Ponca people, and it’s a really good thing,” he said.

[tigermike]

Standing Bear was a Ponca American Indian chief who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are “persons within the meaning of the law” and have the right of habeas corpus. His wife Susette Primeau was also a signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case.

In 1875, the Ponca paramount chief White Eagle, Standing Bear, and other Ponca leaders met with US Indian Agent A. J. Carrier and signed a document allowing removal to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).

White Eagle and other Ponca leaders later claimed that because of a mistranslation, he had understood that they were to move to the Omaha Reservation, not to the Indian Territory. In April 1877, some Ponca people went to live South to the Quapaw Reservation near present-day Peoria, Oklahoma. In May 1877, the US Army forced the removal of the rest of the tribe to go to the Quapaw Reservation, including Standing Bear and his family.

The Ponca arrived in Oklahoma too late to plant crops that year, and the government failed to provide them with the farming equipment it had promised as part of the deal (for a change…).

By spring 1878, nearly a third of the tribe had died due to starvation, malaria and related causes. Standing Bear’s eldest son, Bear Shield, was among the dead. Standing Bear had promised to bury him in the Niobrara River valley homeland, so he left to travel north, with 65 followers.

When they reached at the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska, they were welcomed as relatives. Word of their arrival in Nebraska soon reached the government. Under orders from the Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz, who also directed the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Brigadier General George Crook had the Ponca arrested for having left the reservation in Indian Territory.

Although the official orders were to return them immediately to Indian Territory, Crook was sympathetic to the Ponca and appalled to learn of the conditions they had left.

Crook told the Ponca story to Thomas Tibbles, an editor of the Omaha Daily Herald, who publicized it widely. The attorney John L. Webster offered his services pro bono and was joined by Andrew J. Poppleton, chief attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad.

They aided Standing Bear, who in April 1879 sued for a writ of habeas corpus in U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebraska. Acting as interpreter for Standing Bear was Susette LaFlesche, an accomplished and educated, bilingual Omaha of mixed-race background. The case is called United States ex rel. Standing Bear v. Crook. General Crook was named as the formal defendant because he was holding the Ponca under color of law.

As the trial drew to a close, Judge Dundy announced that Chief Standing Bear would be allowed to make a speech in his own behalf. Raising his right hand, Standing Bear proceeded to speak. Among his words were, “That hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall feel pain,” said Standing Bear. “The blood is of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a man.” Judge Dundy stated that the federal government had failed to show a basis under law for the Poncas’ arrest and captivity.

It was a landmark case, recognizing that an American Indian is a “person” under the law and entitled to its rights and protection. “The right of expatriation is a natural, inherent and inalienable right and extends to the American Indian as well as to the more fortunate white race,” the judge concluded.

The Army immediately freed Standing Bear and his followers. The case gained the attention of the Hayes administration, which provided authority for Standing Bear and some of the tribe to return permanently to the Niobrara valley in Nebraska.

Between October 1879 and 1883, Standing Bear traveled in the eastern United States and Europe, speaking about Indian rights in forums sponsored by Indian advocate and former abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Susette (Bright Eyes) LaFlesche (by then married to Thomas Tibbles) and her brother Francis, who later became an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution, accompanied Standing Bear on the speaking tour. The LaFlesche siblings took turns acting as his translator. Tibbles also was part of the party. During his lecture tour, Standing Bear won the support of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other prominent Americans.

Standing Bear died in 1908 and was buried on a hill overlooking the site of his birth. Today the federal government recognizes two tribes of the people: the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.

The 63-acre Standing Bear Park in Ponca City, Oklahoma was named in his honor. In addition to the annual pow-wow, it is the site of the Standing Bear Museum and Education Center, as well as a 22-foot-high bronze statue of the chief.

[crystalsandbubbletea]

I am not Palestinian, I am Indigenous American.

One hundred and forty six years ago my people were forced to move to Oklahoma, this event was known as the Ponca Trail of Tears. The land my people were forcibly moved to didn't have any proper shelter or food, so my people both froze and starved to the point we are a fraction of what we once were.

The government and schools don't talk about what America has done to my people, I only know because of my great-grandfather and his sister.

The American Government tried to take our identity away, our language is dying out. All because my people weren't living the same lifestyle the land stealers were living.

I stand with Palestine because I see Israel doing what America did to my people and the many Indigenous tribes. I know what it is like to have your identity and culture oppressed and to be dehumanized, and I refuse to let history repeat itself. I will continue to stand with Palestine even when I no longer walk the Earth.

[winningthesweepstakes]

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan Sasuweh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan Sasuweh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan Sasuweh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre. Scholastic, 2021. 9781338681604 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Paperback Genre: Horror What did you like about the book? Jones, former chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, presents thirty-two tales of the preternatural and…

[rabbitcruiser]

Zorinsky Lake Park, Omaha (No. 5)

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest; and Wyoming to the west. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state.

Nebraska's area is just over 77,220 square miles (200,000 km2) with a population of almost 1.9 million people. Its state capital is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.

Indigenous peoples, including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes, lived in the region for thousands of years before European exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails, including that of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Nebraska was admitted as the 37th state of the United States in 1867. It is the only state in the United States whose legislature is unicameral and officially nonpartisan.

Nebraska is composed of two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the Great Plains. The Dissected Till Plains region consist of gently rolling hills and contains the state's largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln. The Great Plains region, occupying most of western Nebraska, is characterized by treeless prairie, suitable for cattle-grazing.

Nebraska has two major climatic zones. The eastern half of the state has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa); a unique warmer subtype considered "warm-temperate" exists near the southern plains like in Kansas and Oklahoma which have a predominantly humid subtropical climate. The western half of the state has a primarily semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk). The state has wide variations between winter and summer temperatures, variations that decrease moving south in the state. Violent thunderstorms and tornadoes occur primarily during spring and summer and sometimes in autumn. Chinook winds tend to warm the state significantly in the winter and early spring.

Source: Wikipedia

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Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma Flag

[queerpyracy]

Manoomin (“wild rice”) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe passed a law formally recognizing the Rights of Manoomin. According to a resolution, these rights were recognized because  “it has become necessary to provide a legal basis to protect wild rice and fresh water resources as part of our primary treaty foods for future generations.”

This reflects traditional laws of Anishinaabe people, now codified by the tribal government. White Earth’s action follows a similar resolution by the 1855 Treaty Authority.

The law begins: “Manoomin, or wild rice, within all the Chippewa ceded territories, possesses inherent rights to exist, flourish, regenerate, and evolve, as well as inherent rights to restoration, recovery, and preservation.”

The Rights of Manoomin include: “The right to clean water and freshwater habitat, the right to a natural environment free from industrial pollution, the right to a healthy, stable climate free from human-caused climate change impacts, the right to be free from patenting, the right to be free from contamination by genetically engineered organisms.”

The Rights of Manoomin are modeled after the Rights of Nature, recognized in courts and adopted internationally during the last decade. In 2008, Ecuador and Bolivia both added Rights of Nature clauses to their constitutions. In 2016, the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin became the first U.S. tribe to adopt the Rights of Nature, and in 2017 the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma became the second. Also in 2017, the New Zealand government granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person as part of its settlement with the Whanganui iwi, a Maori people. That’s the third largest river in Aotearoa(“New Zealand”). India granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. The Himalayan Glaciers are also recognized as having rights to exist.

This work internationally is intended to bring jurisprudence into accordance with ecological laws and address the protection of natural ecosystems, which has fallen short in most legal systems.

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