This month OPB and PBS is featuring many programs for the
American Indian Heritage Month celebration.
Indigenous voices speak out in a month long about diversity and and long
history in the United States.
Celebrate history, culture and traditions of our American Indian.
PBS and OPB - Native American Heritage
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Photo: Standing Bear
"Standing
Bear was a Ponca chief and Indigenous civil rights leader who
successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that
indigenous people are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have
the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American
judicially granted civil rights under American law. His wife Susette
Primeau (Primo), daughter of Lone Chief/Antoine Primeau, was also a
signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case" ~ Old Photos Facebook Community