US Postal Service Honors Ponca Tribe Chief Who Established Native Americans Have Rights

A U.S. Postal Service stamp featuring the portrait of Chief Standing Bear, a Ponca tribe chief, was unveiled on Friday.
Chief Standing Bear's lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law.
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 release of the stamp comes 146 years after the Army forced Chief Standing Bear 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.
The Postal Service has printed 18 million stamps and released them at a ceremony in Lincoln, Nebraska.