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A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait

A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait.

The stamp features a portrait by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877

The stamp features a portrait by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877

The stamp features a portrait of Chief Standing Bear by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877

The stamp features a portrait by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877

The stamp features a portrait by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877

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A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait. The release of the stamp on Friday of Chief Standing Bear comes 146 years after the Army forced him and about 700 other members of the Ponca tribe to leave their homeland in northeast Nebraska and walk 600 miles to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. A lawsuit filed by Chief Standing Bear led to a r...

The stamp features a portrait by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph of Chief Standing Bear taken in 1877