{"product_id":"2940169749038","title":"I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1877, Chief Standing Bear¿s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to Oklahoma ¿ known then as Indian Territory ¿ in what became the tribe¿s own Trail of Tears. \u003ci\u003eI Am a Man\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is an account of people left for dead who survived injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn another level, it is a story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism; a story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil; a story of hope, of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore it ends, Standing Bear¿s long journey home also explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity, and the nature of democracy¿issues that continue to resonate loudly in twenty-first-century America. It is a story that questions whether native sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible with American democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how the nation¿s delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and under siege today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e©2008 Joe Starita (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098123714800,"sku":"2940169749038","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169749038_p0.jpg?v=1769899218","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169749038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}